Singer with a Glove

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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