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Edgar Degas c. 1855 –1860 [7]. Degas was born in Paris, France, into a moderately wealthy family.He was the oldest of five children of Célestine Musson De Gas, a Creole from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Augustin De Gas, a banker. [8]
Edgar Degas first sold At the Races in the Countryside to his art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, in September of 1872. Less than a month later, Degas left Paris for New Orleans to visit relatives. In October, the painting was sent to London and shown at the Fifth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists.
Degas created these drawings during the 1890s and early 1900s. Degas used the name "Les danseuses russes" ("Russian [female] dancers") [ 1 ] and it was known under this name in English and French sources, despite vast ethnographic and art historical evidence for the Ukrainian origin of the women [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
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 ...
Portraits at the Stock Exchange (also known as At the Bourse) is a painting by the French artist Edgar Degas.Completed in about 1879, the painting was already in the collection of the French banker Ernest May when it was listed in the catalogue of the fourth Impressionist exhibition that year.
Young Spartans Exercising, also known as Young Spartans and as Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, [1] is an early oil on canvas painting by French impressionist artist Edgar Degas. The work depicts two groups of male and female Spartan youth exercising and challenging each other in some way.