Ohhh aren’t you lucky Adrienne! I can’t wait for you to go and visit them again with these ideas and observations!! Let us know what happens 😁

Hi Lynne, Such an interesting and close look at an aspect of Degas’ work. I appreciate you sharing your observations with us!! It has made me go back and look at some of his other paintings 😀

Thanks Wendy!
Yes, it’s so interesting to look more deeply at these pieces and really see the changes Degas made.
And yes, let’s do this ourselves more often. I think I’ll take this idea up in the 31-pastels-in-31-days challenge!

Thanks Cheryl!
The differences are quite something. I LOVE that DEgas went through the different iterations of the same subject, honing in on what he wanted to say.

Don’t they Ruth! Then look more closely and boom, all the differences, big and small, start to pop out.
Interesting that you picked out that specific figure. I agree, the profile version does seem more complimentary than the face seen in the pastel painting. The one in the pastel reminds me of Degas’ treatment of the Singer with A Glove – not very flattering!!

You are welcome Laurie! So glad you enjoyed the comparisons.