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Edgar Degas

Woman on a Sofa

1875
Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with touches of pastel, over graphite underdrawing, on pink paper
48.6 × 42.5 cm (19.1 × 16.7 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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