Edgar Degas

France, 1834-1917
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Cafe Concert Singer
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21565
Song of the Dog
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21567
Ballet Rehearsal on Stage
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21568
Dance Class
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21569
Dance Class II
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21570
Orchestra Musicians
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21571
The Orchestra of the Opera
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21572
Woman Ironing
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21573
The Bellelli Family
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21574
After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21575
At the Mirror
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21576
After the Bath
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21577
At the Races, Before the Start
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21578
Ballerina and Lady with a Fan
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21579
After the Bath II
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21580
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21581
At the Milliner's II
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21582
At the Milliner's III
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21583
Before the Race
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21584
At the Ballet
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21585
Before the Rehearsal
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21586
Dancer at the Barre
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21587
Diego Martelli
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21588
Edmond Duranty
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21589
L'Etoile
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21590
At the Races, Gentlemen Jockeys
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21591
Aux Ambassadeurs
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21592
Absinthe
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21593
Beach Scene
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21594
Cafe Concert, At Les Ambassadeurs
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21595
Ballet Rehearsal
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21597
A Carriage at the Races
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21598
Before the Race II
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21599
Emma Dobigny
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21600
Hortense Valpin
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21601
The Rape(Interior)
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21602
Edmond and Therese Morbilli
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21603
Head of a Young Woman
Edgar Degas
Item ID:21604
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Edgar Degas born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his renditions of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation.

At the beginning of his career, he wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties, he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

Degas was born in Paris, France, into a moderately wealthy family. He was the eldest of five children of Célestine Musson De Gas, a Creole from New Orleans, and Augustin De Gas, a banker. Degas (he adopted this less grandiose spelling of his family name when he became an adult) began his schooling at age eleven, enrolling in the Lycee Louis-le-Grand. His mother died when he was thirteen, and his father and grandfather became the main influences on him for the remainder of his youth.

Degas began to paint early in life. By the time he graduated from the Lycee in 1853, at age 18, with a baccalaureat in literature, he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio. Upon graduating, he registered as a copyist in the Louvre Museum, but his father expected him to go to law school. Degas duly enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, in November 1853, but applied little effort to his studies. In 1855, Degas met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whom he revered, and whose advice he never forgot: "Draw lines, young man, and still more lines, both from life and from memory, and you will become a good artist." In April of that year, Degas was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts. He studied drawing there with Louis Lamothe, under whose guidance he flourished, following the style of Ingres. In July 1856, Degas traveled to Italy, where he would remain for the next three years. In 1858, while staying with his aunt's family in Naples, he made the first studies for his early masterpiece, The Bellelli Family. He also drew and painted numerous copies of works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other Renaissance artists, but-contrary to conventional practice-he usually selected from an altarpiece a detail that had caught his attention-a secondary figure, or a head which he treated as a portrait.


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