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Edgar Degas. Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈdeɪɡɑː /, US: / deɪˈɡɑː, dəˈɡɑː /; [1][2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and ...
The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas painted between 1871 and 1874 by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] It is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. [2] It was commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Faure. [3] Degas temporarily abandoned work on this painting, and delivered a work of a similar name ...
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.
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).
The Dance Class is an 1874 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [2] The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class ...
19.7 cm × 27 cm (7.8 in × 11 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Dancing Class is an oil painting on wood executed ca. 1870 by the French artist Edgar Degas. It was the first of Degas's "ballet pictures". The painting depicts a dancing class at the Paris Opéra. [1] The dancer in the center is Joséphine Gaujelin (or Gozelin).
Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism 's most celebrated masterpieces. [1] The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original ...
Waiting is a pastel on paper by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas, completed between 1880–1882. It is an early example of the more than 200 pastels, paintings, mixed media drawings and sculptures of ballerinas depicted by Degas from the early 1880s. [ 1 ] This work is regarded for its vibrant colouring and steep perspective.