Edgar Degas - Violinist and Young Woman 1872

Violinist and Young Woman 1872
Violinist and Young Woman
1872 46x55cm oil/canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

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The figures are meticulously rendered but the canvas is unfinished at the lower edge. Degas often returned to paintings — sometimes after decades — but not this one. Perhaps he considered it 'finished' after all.