Vernissage
Woman on a Sofa

Edgar Degas

French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris

Woman on a Sofa, 1875

Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with touches of pastel, over graphite underdrawing, on pink paper

48.6 × 42.5 cm (19 ¼ × 16 ¾ in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

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