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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]
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.
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.
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.
Edgar Degas had familial ties to Creole New Orleans. Germain Musson, Degas's maternal grandfather, was born of French descent in Port-Au-Prince . In the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution , he relocated in 1810 to New Orleans where he established himself as a cotton exporter. [ 2 ]
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.
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, detail of Degas' statue of van Goethem.. Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; born 7 June 1865) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans).
Degas is the painter of dancers because of the large number of works he devoted to this subject during the period 1860–1890. [1]The influence of the Japanese prints by Hokusai and Utamaro allowed Degas, in a phenomenon linked as a whole to the impressionist movement, to free one of the last barriers of academic painting, the vision of the object.