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Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, [4] and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did. Degas was a superb draftsman , and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers and bathing female nudes .
The Bellelli Family, also known as Family Portrait, is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted c. 1858 –1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay.A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is a portrait of his aunt, her husband, and their two young daughters.
At the same time, Degas's family experienced a series of financial setbacks. Auguste Degas died in 1874 and left considerable outstanding debts. [30] René and Achille Degas had also suffered losses that Edgar and the rest of the family took on. There was now a greater need for Edgar to make money from selling his art. [28]
The original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Edgar Degas depicts his father as an attentive listener looking down, lost in thought. [5] His role takes a back seat to that of the singer Pagan, who dominates this double portrait. [6] While Edgar Degas rendered the faces, hands, and guitar with precise descriptions, other areas of the painting are executed in a fleeting style. [7]
Degas began admiring horses while visiting friends in Normandy. Over the course of his career it is reported that he created 45 oils, 20 pastels, 250 drawings, and 17 sculptures related to horses. Degas was eager to know horses in anatomical detail. [1] As a student, Degas had filled his notebooks with drawings of horses.
Degas' horse movement sketch for Scene from The Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey It has been argued that Degas's friend Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic is the mounted rider with the red cap in the painting, while sculptor Raymond de Broutelles is the rider with the white cap in the back left on the canvas.
The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917). [1]The musicians depicted in the orchestra pit of the Salle Le Peletier the home of the Paris Opera (from 1821 until it burnt down in 1873) are mostly portraits of friends of Degas, foremost among them pictorially the bassoonist and composer Désiré Dihau (1838–1909), who ...