Woman Reclining on Her Bed
c. 1885
Medium
Monotype in black ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.9 × 41.5 cm (7 7/8 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 41.9 cm (8 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
monotype
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
34611
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This sensual nude is one of four similar works, each dedicated by Degas to a male friend. In this case, the friend was Philippe Burty, a great print collector and critic whose influence on the graphic arts in France in the late 19th century was unequaled.
About the Artist
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1834–1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, born on July 19, 1834, in Paris to a prosperous banking family, was the eldest of five children. His mother, Célestine Musson, a Creole from New Orleans whose father Germain Musson had roots in Haiti, died when Degas was thirteen, leaving his father Augustin and unmarried uncles to guide him. Educated at the elite Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he earned a baccalauréat in...