France, 19th century / c. 1890
Estérel Village
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Estérel Village as print (France, 19th century · c. 1890).
Edgar Degas made a total of about 60 similarly abstract landscapes using monotype around the time he made this print.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this print as color monotype and credits Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917).
The museum's collection notes: This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.
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