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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.

Works

The Dancing Class — Edgar DegasEdgar Degas

The Dancing Class

The Millinery Shop — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The Millinery Shop

A 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?)

The Dance Class — Hilaire Germain Edgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

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