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Chanteuse de Café
Singer with a Glove
Edgar Degas · 1878
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
About this painting
Degas cropped the café-concert singer mid-gesture, her raised gloved hand and cut-off mouth capturing the raw, unglamorous energy of Parisian nightlife.
Painting Details
Medium
Pastel on canvas
Dimensions
53 × 41 cm (20.9 × 16.1 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
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