Figure and character sketches of friends, cafe singers, and personalities from nights at the ballet, and cafe and for his finished sketches and paintings, 1877.

Graphite, charcoal, and black ink on wove paper.

Artist: Edgar Degas.

See also the book, A Degas Sketchbook, Carol Armstrong, with a postscript by David Hockney. J. Paul Getty Museum. 2000.

 

This full album is online at The J. Paul Getty Trust, U.S.A.

Cafe Singers, about 1877, Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Reyer and the Washer Woman, about 1877, Edgar Degas (1834-1917)