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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 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.
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Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas [1] is the title of a painting by Edgar Degas.Painted in oil on canvas, it is 54.5 cm high and 39.5 cm wide.The double portrait, painted around 1871–1872, [2] shows the Catalan tenor Lorenzo Pagans performing a song and guitar recital.
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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.