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Degas made sketches of this composition in Rome 1857-58. Originally conceived as a depiction of a pensive woman overlooking an oriental metropolis, the picture assumed a mysterious air when Degas added the two red ibises around 1860-62</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Edgar_Degas" class="extiw" title="w:en:Edgar Degas"><span title="French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)">Edgar Degas</span></a>
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between circa 1860 and circa 1862 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19912883#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, Photo by Szilas in the Metropolitan, 2008-10-23