1870 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Sulking -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Two well-known personalities in the art world posed for this early genre scene: Edmond Duranty, the author of The New Painting, and Emma Dobigny, a model. Although the two figures can be securely identified, the subject of the painting is purely conjectural. The setting is an office with a prominent British print of a steeplechase on the wall. The pair, perhaps a couple, seem unsettled by something. Adding to the narrative ambiguity, Degas titled the painting Bouderie (sulking).
1870 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Sulking -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Two well-known personalities in the art world posed for this early genre scene: Edmond Duranty, the author of The New Painting, and Emma Dobigny, a model. Although the two figures can be securely identified, the subject of the painting is purely conjectural. The setting is an office with a prominent British print of a steeplechase on the wall. The pair, perhaps a couple, seem unsettled by something. Adding to the narrative ambiguity, Degas titled the painting Bouderie (sulking).