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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 ...
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. [ 1 ] Its original title was Dans un Café, [ 2 ] a name often used today. [ 3 ] Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the ...
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston. 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 ...
Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde is an 1875 oil painting by Edgar Degas. [1] It depicts the cigar-smoking Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters Eylau and Jeanine, his dog, and a solitary man on the left at Place de la Concorde in Paris. The man on the left may be the playwright Ludovic ...
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. The work was purchased by the trustees of the ...
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 ...
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.
The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas between 1874 and 1876 by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] The painting depicts a group of ballet dancers at the end of a lesson, led by ballet master, Jules Perrot. [1] Known for often portraying dancers, Degas captured the grace and the rigorous nature of ballet as a ...