Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
Born in Paris; died in Paris.
Degas trained in the academic tradition, admired Ingres and spent three years in Italy copying earlier art, but turned to modern Paris for his subjects: dancers, racecourses, laundresses, milliners and café singers. He helped organise the Impressionist exhibitions and showed in all but one, yet preferred to call himself a realist. Working from drawing and memory rather than outdoors, he composed with unexpected cropping and viewpoints, and in later years worked mostly in pastel as his eyesight failed.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 15 worksDated 1857–1901
- Mostly
- Paintings, Print, Drawing
- Movement
- ImpressionismPainters in 1870s Paris who worked quickly, often outdoors, to catch light as it changed.
The works
