# Sheet of Studies and Sketches, in Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas painted this in 1858, aged 24. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Degas traveled to Florence, Italy, in July 1858, where he made this sheet of studies. The featured imagery is fragmented and dissociated, suggesting the young artist's engagement with art of the past.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1858
- Medium: graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 30.4 x 23.5 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.430
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Edgar Degas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edgar-degas), French, 1834–1917

Degas trained in the academic tradition, admired Ingres and spent three years in Italy copying earlier art, but turned to modern Paris for his subjects: dancers, racecourses, laundresses, milliners and café singers.

15 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Edgar Degas's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-edgar-degas?hang=749) (8 works)
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- [19th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-france?hang=749) (237 works)

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