The Fireside. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834-1917 Paris). Dimensions: plate: 16 3/4 x 23 1/16 in. (42.5 x 58.6 cm)sheet: 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (50.2 x 64.8 cm). Date: ca. 1876-77.As Degas strove to represent the female body with greater truth, women engaged in the intimate rituals of both the bath and the brothel became his frequent themes. During the 1870s, when novels by J.-K. Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, and Émile Zola focused on the flourishing profession of prostitution, Degas too studied the world of the maisons closes, and made about fifty smudged drawings in greasy ink on glass or metal plates which he printed as monotypes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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The Fireside. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834-1917 Paris). Dimensions: plate: 16 3/4 x 23 1/16 in. (42.5 x 58.6 cm)sheet: 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (50.2 x 64.8 cm). Date: ca. 1876-77.As Degas strove to represent the female body with greater truth, women engaged in the intimate rituals of both the bath and the brothel became his frequent themes. During the 1870s, when novels by J.-K. Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, and Émile Zola focused on the flourishing profession of prostitution, Degas too studied the world of the maisons closes, and made about fifty smudged drawings in greasy ink on glass or metal plates which he printed as monotypes. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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