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Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

Self Portrait Saluting - Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

• July 19, ; Paris, France  
• September 27, ; Paris, France  
• French
• Impressionism,Realism
• painting,sculpture,drawing
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,Michelangelo,Raphael,Titian,Edouard Manet,Eugene Delacroix
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• &#;cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
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One of the founders of the Impressionist movement, Edgar Degas was a prominent artist in the last half of the 19th century. Born to wealthy family, he began his schooling with a baccalaureate in literature in Due to the wishes of his father, who wanted him to go to law school, he enrolled at the University of Paris in to pursue a law degree, where he made little effort. Degas, who at age 18 had transformed one of the rooms is his house into a studio, and was a registered copyist at the Louvre by , left law school after two years, and a year later traveled to Italy studying the art of t

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Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

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Title:Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris – Paris)

Date

Medium:Graphite heightened with black and white chalk on pink wove paper (now faded); squared for transfer

Dimensions:Sheet: 13 in. × 9 5/8 in. (33 × cm)
Framed: 21 × 16 in. ( × cm)

Classification:Drawings

Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer,

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Signature: Lower left corner, in graphite: Degas

Inscription: Inscribed center right: "le bras est enfoncé un/ peu dans la / mousseline" (the arm is slightly nestled in the muslin)

Louisine W. Havemeyer

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The H. O. Havemeyer Collection," March 10–November 2,

Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, ," March 30, –April 30,

Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture by Edgar Degas," October 16, –November 13,

Saint Louis Art Museum. "Drawings by Degas," January 20, –February 26,

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Drawings by Degas," March 10, –April 30,

The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. "Drawings by Degas," May 18, –June 25,

Indianapolis Museu