Title: Bookshelves, Study for "Edmond Duranty"
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1879
Artist:  Edgar Degas 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Dark brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, faded to beige
Dimensions: 18 7/16 x 12 in.  (46.9 x 30.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Books, term: Libraries