Edgar Degas, 1887 - The Convalescent - fine art print

The artwork titled "The Convalescent" as art copy

This 19th century artwork was painted by the French painter Edgar Degas. The artpiece was painted with the size 65,7 × 49,8 cm (25 7/8 × 19 5/8 in) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. This artwork is included in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital art collection. The modern art public domain work of art is provided with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.The creditline of the artpiece is the following: . On top of that, alignment is portrait and has an image ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Edgar Degas was a male photographer, poet, engraver, painter, sculptor, whose art style was mainly Impressionism. The Impressionist painter was born in the year 1834 and died at the age of 83 in the year 1917 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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Although the identity of the sitter in this portrait is a mystery, Edgar Degas conveyed her character by capturing the overwhelming sorrow to which she has succumbed. Posed with her head tilted and leaning against the back of her left hand, she appears weary. Her languorous expression and red-rimmed eyes, together with the limp right arm hanging at her side, suggest a physical or emotional malady, though nothing in the painting confirms the cause of her affliction. Hidden beneath a brown robe and full white gown, her pose is ambiguous; it is unclear if she sits, stands, or leans. The Convalescent attests to Degas's interest in the world of women--their physical characteristics and surroundings, and their complex emotional and psychological conditions.

Unlike traditional nineteenth-century portraits, which were commissioned and usually left the artist's studio upon completion, this depiction of an unidentified woman remained in Degas's studio for at least fifteen years. The painting is unconventional in other ways as well; The Convalescent is more psychologically suggestive and spatially ambiguous than typical portraits of the time, such as Franz Xaver Winterhalter's official portrait, Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. Degas's thick, unblended brushstrokes and flattened space bring the figure forward, conveying informality and intimacy.