Edgar Degas - Portrait of a Young Woman, after Francesco Bacchiacca 1859

Portrait of a Young Woman, after Bacchiacca 1859
Portrait of a Young Woman, after Francesco Bacchiacca
1859 64x45cm oil/canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

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From National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa:
During his first trip to Florence in 1858, Degas visited the Uffizi Gallery and, in an age-old artistic tradition, made copies after the Old Masters. One such, in pencil, was of a red-chalk drawing of a woman, then attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Degas went a step further, assuming the role of his predecessor and producing this painting from his copy of the Renaissance drawing.