Okay, okay, so Madame Musson's head looks a little small.  Somehow, I shrunk in the horizontal scale on both edges of this drawing.  In order to compensate, I made some things bigger around Madame Musson.  That is, I made everything bigger except her head.  I wish that was the only thing wrong with this drawing which is a combination of pencil, and brown and gray wash.

As with my other attempts to recreate portraits, I could not capture the expressions on the faces very well.  I was happiest with the daughter in the foreground even though hers was also the biggest miss.  I mean, I think I caught some kind of expression but still did not get what she was showing on her face.

In the meantime, my paint brush and I weren't up to the task of applying the colors, so I was grateful to survive the experience.

This drawing is by Edgar Degas and measures 35.6 cm high x 26.7 cm wide.

Our teacher kept on urging us to do works that were not presented in our class text book as he gets tired of seeing the same art every term.  This is one of two that I was able to find outside of the text and the remaining six masters I turned in were from the text.

Finding drawings outside was not as easy as I first thought.  These artists are master painters and most books about them feature paintings, not their drawings.  Books that address the topic of drawing are often "how to" manuals and are not collections of drawings from master artists.

Our text, however, was just too tempting as it had a great assortment to choose from.