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Edgar Degas
Self-Portrait, oil on paper by Edgar Degas, c. 1855â56; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In 1845, the French artist Edgar Degas began his formal education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, a leading boys' school in Paris where he received a conventional classical education.1
Later, in 1855, he pursued his artistic training by registering at the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts.1