

2466
7
by
Edgar Degas
Visit to a Museum
1879 - 1890
Stamped, lower left: degas
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John McAndrew
This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to “give the idea of that bored and respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.”
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John McAndrew
This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to “give the idea of that bored and respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.”
- Size:
- 91.8 x 68 cm (36 1/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Public Domain, Courtesy of the MFA Boston
- For more:
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/visit-to-a-museum-340…
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