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Woman Seated.
Sketches of a Cafe Singer.

Figures and sketches of characters and personalities from the night life of Paris, and for his finished sketches and paintings, i.e. of the washer woman, singers and dancers, people at the café, opera, ballet, and brothels. 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.

Images from An Album of Pencil Sketches 1877 online at The J. Paul Getty Trust, U.S.A.