# Women at the Terrace of a Café [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DEGAS, Edgar]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Pastel, 55 x 72 cm ## Commentary In this painting one looks out from the café onto the boulevard at night, as someone passes by as a dark shadow. Prostitutes sit in the foreground, waiting for customers, with bored resignation and professional patience. Here Degas pushes the painting of interior to its limits. The interior he depicts is no more enclosed and intimate, it is a space open to the outside. ## Related artworks - [A Ballet Dancer in Position]() - [Absinthe Drinkers]() - [After the Bath]() - [After the Bath. Woman Drying Herself]() - [At the Beach]() - [At the Café des Ambassadeurs]() - [At the Milliner's]() - [At the Milliner's]() - [At the Mirror]() - [At the Races in the Countryside]() - [Aux Ambassadeurs: Mademoiselle Bécat]() - [Ballerina with a Bouquet, Curtsying]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()