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Also Known As Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas • Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
Born July 19, 1834 • Paris • France
Died September 27, 1917 (aged 83) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Cotton Office at New Orleans” • “Dancers at the Barre” • “L’Absinthe” • “Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey” • “Scene of War in the Middle Ages” • “The Ballet Class”
Movement / Style Impressionism

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Oil painting by Edgar Degas showing ballet dancers in white Romantic tutus warming up in a dance studio, with instructors and a chair holding a fan in the foreground.
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