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ARTIST

Edgar Degas

1834–1917 · France

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

ABOUT

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

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NOTABLE WORKS

Self-Portrait 1854 · Musée d'Orsay Oenochoé shaped head of young man 1855 · Musée d'Orsay René de Gas 1855 · National Gallery of Art Self-Portrait 1855 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Two Seated Women (verso) 1856 · Cleveland Museum of Art Battle Scene with Armored Figures on Horseback (recto) Two Seated Women (verso) 1856 · Cleveland Museum of Art

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresNeoclassicism Eugène DelacroixRomanticism Katsushika HokusaiUkiyo-e Diego VelázquezBaroque

Influenced

Henri de Toulouse-LautrecPost-Impressionism Mary CassattImpressionism Walter SickertPost-Impressionism Pablo PicassoCubism

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