There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degasfrom Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model a short memoir published by Alice Michel who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English the texts original publication in Mercure de France in 1919 shortly after the artists death has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice