Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes

Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes

About the Author Ann Dumas is an independent art historian and curator, and is co-author of Renoirs Women, also published by Merrell. Richard Kendall is Curator at Large at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and a specialist in Impressionist art. Edgar Degas is regarded, above all, as a painter of the human figure and of city life, and yet both his early notebooks and the practice of his later years attest to his consistent interest in landscape painting. In tracing Degass response to landscape, including, most notably, his visits to the small resort of Saint-Val