Portrait of Louis-Marie Pilet Painting by Edgar Degas

Famous Art work & Drawing by Edgar Degas -Portrait of Louis-Marie Pilet

Portrait of Louis-Marie Pilet, Violoncellist in the Orchestra of the Opera. 1868-69. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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Now the only hope of escape seemed to be the port of Dunkirk. It was necessary to fight down to cross a 50-mile-long and 15-mile-wide corridor to reach there. On the one hand, death was inevitable, while on the other, awaited a grim, odd arrest of 3,00,000 soldiers.

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