Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet

Edgar Degas, 1856

LOCATIONNational Gallery of Art

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Edgar Degas 1834–1917 · France

Captured ballet dancers and modern Parisian life in pastels with an eye as precise as a photographer's lens.