1860 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Promenade beside the Sea -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Degas made a number of pencil studies of the Bay of Naples during a visit to his Italian relations in 1860. This landscape was based on these studies but probably painted in the artist's studio in Paris: the topography has been simplified, and the dominant form of Vesuvius omitted. The foreground figures of a lady and gentleman on horseback became a frequent motif in Degas's later work.
1860 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Promenade beside the Sea -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Degas made a number of pencil studies of the Bay of Naples during a visit to his Italian relations in 1860. This landscape was based on these studies but probably painted in the artist's studio in Paris: the topography has been simplified, and the dominant form of Vesuvius omitted. The foreground figures of a lady and gentleman on horseback became a frequent motif in Degas's later work.