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. 2015 Nov 13;30(2):287–303. doi: 10.1038/eye.2015.197

Figure 14.

Figure 14

Changing detail in pastels by Edgar Degas (1834–1917). These images are scaled and cropped slightly to show Degas' technique over a 15-year period. Left: Woman Combing her Hair (ca. 1885) shows careful shading and musculature. Middle: Woman Combing her Hair (ca. 1888–90) has shading lines further apart and less precise. Right: After the bath (1899) has rather coarse outlining and shading. Image details: Left: Pastel on paper (52 × 51 cm). Wikimedia Commons and Foundation (photograph The Yorck Project): Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. Middle: Pastel on paper (61 × 46 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Gift of Mr and Mrs Nate B Spingold, 1956. Right: Pastel on paper (62 × 65 cm). Wikimedia (photo by J-P Dalbéra): Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.