Art, literature & history
The Road (La route)
c. 1878/1880
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- monotype on China paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.7 x 16.1 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 16 x 18.4 cm (6 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1952.8.224
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edgar Degas. The Road (La route). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Road (La route) — Edgar Degas. c. 1878/1880.
Medium: monotype on China paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.7 x 16.1 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 16 x 18.4 cm (6 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1952.8.224. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.