CAFÉ CONCERT AT LES AMBASSADEURS
Edgar Degas
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- CAFÉ CONCERT AT LES AMBASSADEURS
Edgar Degas
1876
14.2 x 11.0 in
36.0 x 28.0 cm
Pastel on monotype
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
Since the 1830s, the opera houses, theatres and vaudeville shows had grown in number and importance in the new Paris. Artists were fascinated by famous cafés among which the Café des Ambassadeurs was one of the oldest that offered musical entertainment.
Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs is one of the most well-known pastels by Edgar Degas. The artist first presented it in 1877 at an exhibition of the Impressionist group.
The striking composition of this musical performance places the spectator among the people in the orchestra section in the shadowed foreground. The eye is attracted beyond the musicians to the singer in a red dress, who is strongly illuminated by the footlights.
Degas' mastery of scenic effects tied to artificial lighting, an original composition and his virtuosity with pastel reinforce the lively aspect of this scene, which seems to have been drawn on the spot.
From 1876 to 1886, Degas often used a printing technique known as monotype. For this drawing in particular, he used a rare process that involves drawing over the monotype with pastel. The black ink of the monotype thus accentuates the shadowed areas.
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- The Dance Class
- Portrait of the Painter Henri Michel Levy
- The Rehearsal
- The Rape
- Edmond and Therese Morbilli
- Before the Race2
- Ballet Rehearsal
- At the Milliner s
- Singer with a glove (Café Singer)
- Head of a Young Woman
- At the Races Before the Start
- Four Dancers
- At the Milliners 2
- The Ballet Class
- The Star
- Woman Ironing 1884
- At the Races in the Countryside (A Carriage at the Races)
- Portrait after a Costume Ball Portrait of Madame DietzMonnin
- Beach Scene
- A Roman Beggar Woman
- A Carriage at the Races
- Degas in a Green Jacket
- Henri De Gas and His Neice Lucie Degas
- Dancer At The Photographers
- Ballerina and Lady with a Fan
- Self Portrait
- At the Races the Start
- At the Milliners
- Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet
- The Millinery Shop
- Interior aka The Rape
- In a Café (Glass of Absinthe or The Absinthe Drinker)
- Diego Martelli
- Cotton exchange
- Ballet at the Paris Opera
- Edmond Duranty
- The Star (Ballet or Dancer on Stage)
- Hortense Valpin
- The Dancing Class
- Dancers in Pink
- The Bellelli Family (Family Portrait)
- At the Milliners 3
- At the Races
- Cafe concert
- Portrait of Mary Cassatt
- The Parade (Race Horses in front of the Tribunes)
- Woman ironing
- Ballet Class
- Emma Dobigny
- CAFÉ CONCERT AT LES AMBASSADEURS
- The Duke and Duchess Morbilli
- The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
- Dancer at the Barre circa 1880
- At the Mirror
- After the Bath
- Study of Gentile bellini 1854
- After the Bath
- Before the Rehearsal 1880
- After The Bath
- The Tub
- After The Bath 1884
- Woman Combing Her Hair
- At the Ballet
- The Dance Examination
- Woman At Her Toilet
- After the Bath Woman Drying Herself
- Seated Dancer Adjusting Her Shoes
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