Press release, The RISD Museum
In the late summer of 1885, a group of friends gathered in the popular resort town of Dieppe on the Normandy coast of France. With its beachfront promenade and sprawling chalets, Dieppe was a chic destination for artists and writers eager to escape the stifling heat of Paris and London. The summer of 1885 was like many others, but for one remarkable souvenir—Edgar Degas’s Six Friends at Dieppe, a dramatic pastel portrait representing key members of the artist’s milieu.
