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Edgar Degas: Ballet
Featured Biography Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas—a French painter and sculptor who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of the female figure, especially ballet dancers and bathers—was born this day in 1834. [Explore the radicalism of Impressionism.]

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