Landscape with Rocks
Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917

Details
Title
Landscape with Rocks
Artist/Maker
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Date
1892
Medium
Pastel over monotype in oil colors on wove paper
Dimensions
10 1/8 x 13 9/16 inches
Credit
Purchase with High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund
Accession #
2000.200
On View
Currently not on view
Rustling orange grasses dabbed with touches of blue evoke the peaceful arrival of fall in the hills. Degas created this monotype, which combines printing and drawing, in the two years following a visit to Burgundy, France. He called it an “imaginary landscape,” as he created it from memory—a method he preferred over working directly from nature. Degas said, “It’s all very well to copy what one sees; it’s much better to draw what one can see only in one’s memory.… You reproduce nothing but that which has made an impression upon you, which is to say, the necessary.”
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