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Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [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 ...
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.
The Dance Lesson (sometimes known as The Dancing Lesson) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas created around 1879. It is currently kept at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There is at least one other work by Degas by this title, also made in about 1879, which is a pastel. [1]
In the location of the painting where one girl holds a fan, there was originally a girl adjusting her slipper, but Degas painted over her. [7] Edgar Degas, The Dance Class. Degas often explored a single theme across many works. [7] The Ballet Class was one of three major paintings centering on Jules Perrot between 1873 and 1876. [6]
The Auguste de Gas depicted in the painting was the father of the painter Edgar Degas and was known as a music lover. [4] The scene of the painting Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas takes place in the music room of his apartment at 4 rue de Mondovi in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Family and friends met here every Monday evening to exchange ...
At the Races in the Countryside or Carriage at the Races is an 1869 oil painting by the French painter Edgar Degas. The painting, which depicts a scene of a family in a horse-drawn carriage in the countryside, is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. [1] The painting was shown at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. [2]
The Millinery Shop is an oil on canvas painting by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas created between 1879 and 1886. [1]: 220 It illustrates a young woman, perhaps a hat-maker or a shop customer, seated at a table examining a hat in her hands and additional hats on wooden stands.
As a student, Degas had filled his notebooks with drawings of horses. During a tour of breeding farms with Paul Valpincon and after exposure to horse races, Degas appreciated the movement of the horses and the colors of the jockeys uniforms. He wanted to make his paintings seem spontaneous as if he'd captured a passing moment. [2]