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| 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.
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