Woman Putting on a Stocking
Edgar Degas
1895–1910 · Bronze · Modern and Contemporary Art
Since Degas’s surviving sculptures represent only a portion of his entire production, and since none are dated, it is difficult to establish a chronology. Those that still exist depict Degas’s favorite subjects. With the exception of a few sculpted heads, these include horses, dancers, and women—bathing or dressing—all caught in a fleeting moment. It has been suggested that, while Degas appears to have engaged adolescent models to pose for his earlier works, the later sculptures depict more mature and less slender sitters. In accordance with the artist’s expressive and summary late painting style, the surface here is rough and coarse. The face is indicated by a few flat planes, and the missing left foot either broke off from the wax model or perhaps never existed at all.
- Artist
- Edgar Degas
- Date
- 1895–1910
- Medium
- Bronze
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
