Artist: Edgar Degas
Size: 31 x 32 cm
Technique: Drawing
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) pursued a classical education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris followed by a three-year period of study in Italy. He returned to Paris in 1859 with the ambition to revive the historical painting genre and began work on five paintings: The Daughter of Jephthah, Semiramis Building Babylon, Alexander and Bucephalus, Spartan Girls Challenging Boys and Scene of War in the Middle Ages. The numerous preparatory studies that have survived reflect the slow and difficult maturation of these works. Seeking an impossible synthesis that would renew the historical genre, the eternally dissatisfied artist eventually abandoned his compositions, leaving most of them unfinished. Only War scene in the Middle Ages was completed and presented at the Salon of 1865.Drapery Study belongs to a series of preparatory drawings for the painting Semiramis Building Babylon, now part of the Musée d
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