11. Edgar Degas, Notebook 28, 1877, drawing known as "La Fille Elisa," private collection, New York. 12. Edgar Degas, Notebook 28, 1877, drawing known as "La Fille Elisa," private collection, New York. demeanor of his figures and by completing their stories within the edges of his notebook pages. Degas is right in step with Jean-Louis Forain on this matter. Forain's undated etching of a 16 maison close (fig. 13), intended as a book illustration. is quite close in composition and spirit to Degas's drawings, in spite of Forain's characteristic spectacularizing of the full bosoms of prostitutes. In Degas's monotypes, compositional structure and the temperature of human relations are otherwise. Furnishing and clothing are also different, but it is the absence of comfort or 50 warmth in the monotypes that sets them apart from the drawings.