Estérel Village
This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.
Details
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- Medium
- color monotype
- Dimensions
- sheet: height 0.299 m, width 0.399 m; image: height 0.299 m, width 0.399 m
- Origin
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image visibly presents an expansive rural terrain with a low horizon, vegetation, and distant vertical or architectural forms; the museum identifies the work as a landscape.
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Atmospheric Landscapes Both · 96%
Hazy contours, subdued light, and softened transitions make atmospheric effects central to the view, consistent with the museum’s description of weather effects and blurriness.
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Abstract Landscape Both · 90%
The scene remains recognizable as a landscape but is organized through broad, diffuse passages of color and indistinct marks; the museum describes the layered composition as bordering on abstraction.
Visual Qualities
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Blurred Visual · 97%
Trees, terrain, and distant forms have softened, indistinct edges rather than crisp outlines.
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Earth Tones Visual · 97%
The image is dominated by muted ochres, dusty pinks, reddish browns, olive greens, beige, and dark brown accents.
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Layered Images Both · 88%
Overlapping passages of pigment and texture form successive areas of sky, vegetation, middle ground, and foreground; the museum specifically describes layers of color and texture.
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Rough Visual · 90%
The surface appears granular and uneven, with dense stippling, rubbed transitions, and irregular patches across the image.
Medium and Techniques
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Prints Metadata · 99%
The museum classifies the object as a print and specifies its medium as a color monotype.
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Monotype/Monoprint Metadata · 100%
The catalog identifies the medium as a color monotype, which directly supports the monotype/monoprint technique category.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The work is dated c. 1890, with a catalog date range of 1885–1895.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog identifies Degas as French and gives France, 19th century as the place of origin.
Source & rights
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Estérel Village. Cleveland Museum of Art.