Interior (Degas)

Interior
Interior
Artist	Edgar Degas
Year	1868–1869
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	81.3 cm × 114.3 cm (32 in × 45 in)
Location	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Interior (French: Intérieur), also known as The Rape (French: Le Viol), is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted in 1868–1869. Described as "the most puzzling of Degas's major works",^[1] it depicts a tense confrontation by lamplight between a man and a partially undressed woman. The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek a literary source for the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance. Even the painting's title is uncertain; acquaintances of the artist referred to it either as Le Viol or Intérieur, and it was under the latter title that Degas exhibited it for the first time in 1905.^[2] The painting is housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.^[3]

^ Reff 1976, p. 200.
^ Cite error: The named reference Kramer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Object record in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's online collection.

[1] Reff 1976, p. 200.

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[3] Object record in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's online collection.

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