France, 19th century / c. 1866
Victoria Dubourg
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Victoria Dubourg as drawing (France, 19th century · c. 1866).
Around the time this drawing was made, its subject, Victoria Dubourg, became engaged to the artist Henri Fantin-Latour, also a friend of Degas.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this drawing as graphite and credits Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917).
The museum's collection notes: This drawing is one of several studies that Edgar Degas created for a painted portrait of the artist Victoria Dubourg, now in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art. Here, Degas concentrated on the facial expression of Dubourg, known for her still-lifes of flowers. Attempting to precisely render Dubourg's direct gaze, Degas drew her eyes in greater detail, even adding an additional sketch along the sheet's upper margin.
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