A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), Edgar Degas, 1865
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), 1865, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), The juxtaposition of the prominent bouquet and the off-center figure, gazing distractedly to the right, exemplifies Degas’s aim of capturing individuals in seemingly casual, slice-of-life views. The sitter is probably the wife of the artist’s schoolboy friend Paul Valpinçon; Degas immensely enjoyed outings to their country house, Ménil-Hubert, and the dahlias, asters, and gaillardias in the bouquet would suggest a late summer visit
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