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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

1834–1917

Edgar Degas. Self-Portrait, c. 1855–56.
Edgar Degas. Self-Portrait, c. 1855–56.

Degas supplemented academic training by copying older masters in Italy and the Louvre. He helped organize independent Impressionist exhibitions but preferred to call himself a realist. His sustained study of movement and gesture crossed pastel, monotype, photography and sculpture.

Paintings and other works

The Dancing Class — Edgar DegasEdgar Degas

The Dancing Class

About 1870The Millinery Shop — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The Millinery Shop

1879-86A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?) — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

1865The Dance Class — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

1874Yellow Dancers (In the Wings) — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings)

1874–76Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

c. 1860Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin) — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)

1879Café Singer — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Café Singer

1879

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Sources

Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855–56. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960, 61.101.6. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait source · Licence