Study for a Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Louis Rouart
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal, with stumping and touches of erasing, on tracing paper, laid down on board
- Dimensions
- 97.7 × 77.5 cm (38 1/2 × 30 9/16 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingtracing paperpastelpaperpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
This pastel is one of a group of works in which Edgar Degas acknowledged his lifetime friendship with Henri Rouart—an industrialist, gifted amateur painter, and serious collector—and Rouart’s family. This pastel, probably a study for an unrealized painting, depicts Henri’s youngest child, Louis, and his wife, Christine. One of eight large drawings connected to the project, it exemplifies the bold, gestural handling characteristic of the artist’s late, expressive style.
