Cleveland Museum of Art
Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-568c79847d76
- Date
- 1879–80
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on Arches laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 667091
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although best-known for colorful paintings and pastels depicting the Paris of his time, Edgar Degas was simultaneously an incredibly innovative printmaker. Created during the artist’s most prolific period in etching, this print depicts two actresses preparing for a performance in adjoining dressing rooms. Degas used the walls, curtains, and artificial lighting within the space to create a dense and mazelike composition. This print is one of several that Edgar Degas created by etching and printing a plate typically used to create daguerreotypes—a form of early photography.
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- ?-?: Given by Edgar Degas [1834–1917], Paris, to Jean-François Raffaëlli | ?-?: Jean-François Raffaëlli [1850-1912], Paris | ?–1991: (Galerie Sagot-Le Garrec, Paris, sold to Samuel Josefowitz) | 1991–2015: Samuel Josefowitz [1921–2015], Pully, Switzerland, by descent | 2015–23: Josefowitz family collection | 2023: (sale, Christie’s, Paris, “La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Vente du soir,” October 20, 2023, no. 119, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2023–: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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