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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This small oil is like a snapshot of Degas' Paris. Just as we only have time to pick up a few details of someone's appearance as they hurry past us in the street, Degas realistically suggests the fleeting nature of such an encounter. He gives us just enough information to let us understand what we see and leaves our imagination to fill in the details. Here we glimpse a woman, her face shielded by the parasol she holds in her black-gloved hand, walking with a companion. We have to work to make out her companion, who, dressed in similar neutral tones, holds her parasol low, behind her head and just above her shoulders. Degas adds only some quick strokes of red to suggest a hat or some flowers in her light brown hair. The two women are probably walking in the fashionable Tuileries Gardens in the centre of Paris, although it is also possible that they are at a race-course. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Degas, Edgar (French painter and sculptor, 1834-1917) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8296... | Go to resource |
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