Interior by Edgar Degas
by Georgia Clare
Title
Interior by Edgar Degas
Artist
Georgia Clare
Medium
Digital Art - Oil On Canvas
Description
Interior (French: Interieur), also known as The Rape (French - Le Viol), is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834 -1917), painted in 1868 -1869. Described as "the most puzzling of Degas's major works", it depicts a tense confrontation by lamplight between a man and a partially undressed woman. The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek a literary source for the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance. Even the painting's title is uncertain; acquaintances of the artist referred to it either as Le Viol or Interieur. It was under the latter title that Degas exhibited it for the first time in 1905.
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May 7th, 2013
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