A Degas Sketchbook

“Edgar Degas’s Album of Pencil Sketches – now in the collection of the Getty Museum – was made in the late 1870s, in intimate surroundings: the home of Degas’s friend Ludovic Halevy. The album reflects this casual atmosphere and offers a glimpse of the artist in a playful, relaxed frame of mind, making quick portraits of friends and acquaintances and sketching scenes from the ballet, the theater, and the cafés of ninteenth-century Paris.”