A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)
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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)

Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)

Edgar Degas

France

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About The Artwork

The juxtaposition of the prominent bouquet and the off-center figure, gazing distractedly to the right, exemplifies Degas’s aim of capturing individuals in seemingly casual, slice-of-life views. The sitter is probably the wife of the artist’s schoolboy friend Paul Valpinçon; Degas immensely enjoyed outings to their country house, Ménil-Hubert, and the dahlias, asters, and gaillardias in the bouquet would suggest a late summer visit. The painting was preceded by a pencil drawing of the woman, also dated 1865 (Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass.)

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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)

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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon)

About the artist

The eldest son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas reinforced his formal academic art training by copying Old Master paintings both in Italy, where he spent three years (1856–1859), and at the Louvre. Degas early on developed a rigorous drawing style and a respect for line that he would maintain throughout his career. His first independent works were portraits and history paintings but in the early 1860s he began to paint scenes from modern life. He started with the world of horse racing and by the end of the 1860s had also turned his attention to the theater and ballet.

Soon after a trip to New Orleans, where his uncle and two of his brothers worked in the cotton trade, in 1873, Degas banded together with other artists interested in organizing independent exhibitions without juries. He became a founding member of what soon would be known as the impressionists, participating in six impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886.

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