Ref No. Degas 1
Race Horses Before
Grandstand, 1866-68
Oil on canvas
46 x 61cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
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Ref No. Degas 2
At the Races in the
Country, 1870-73
Oil on wood
36,5 x 55,9 cm
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.
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Ref No. Degas 3
Racecourse, Amateur
Jockeys, 1876-87
Oil on canvas
66 x 81 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
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Ref No. Degas 4
Before the Race,1882
Oil on wood
26,5 x 34,9 cm
Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute,
Williamstown, MA.
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Ref No. Degas 37
Woman in Her Bath
Washing Her Leg,
1883-84Pastel
19 x 41 cm
Musee d'Orsay,Paris.
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Ref No. Degas 38
Reclining Nude,
1883-85 Pastel
32,77 x 41,62cm
Galerie Beyler, Basle
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Ref No. Degas 39
Woman in the Tub,
1884 Pastel86 x 76cm
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Ref No. Degas 40
The Tub, 1885-86 c.
Pastel69,9 x 69,9cm
Hillstead Museum,
Farmington, Conecticut.
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Ref No. Degas 41
The Tub, 1886
Pastel on cardboard
69,9 x 69,9 cm
Jeu de Paume
Museum, Paris.
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Ref No. Degas 42
Woman Drying herself,
1886 Pastel
85,34 x 70,36 cm
Collection James Archidale
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Ref No. Degas 43
A Woman Having Her
Hair Combed, 1886-88
Pastel (73 x 59 cm)
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.
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Ref No. Degas 44
Seated Woman Combing
Her Hair, 1887-90
Pastel (80 x 57 cm)
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
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Ref No. Degas 57
Singer with a Glove,
1878 Mixed media
on canvas
52,8 x 41,1 cm
Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University
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Ref No. Degas 58
The Daughter of Jephthah
1859-61Oil on canvas
195,6 x 298,5 cm
Smith College Museum
of Art, Northampton, MA
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Ref No. Degas 59
The Young Spartans
Exercising, 1860-62 c.
Oil on canvas
109,2 x 154,3 cm
National Gallery,London.
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Ref No. Degas 60
Medieval War Scene
1865 Oil colors on
paper mounted on
canvas 81 x 147cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas France Impressionism, b.1834 - d.1917.Degas was born into a well-to-do banking family on July 19, 1834, in Paris. He studied at the ¨¦cole des Beaux-Arts under a disciple of the famous French classicist J. A. D. Ingres, where Degas developed the great drawing ability that was to be a salient characteristic of his art. After 1865, under the influence of the budding impressionist movement, he gave up academic subjects to turn to contemporary themes. But, unlike the impressionists, he preferred to work in the studio and was uninterested in the study of natural light that fascinated them. He was attracted by theatrical subjects, and most of his works depict racecourses, theaters, caf¨¦s, music halls, or boudoirs. Degas was a keen observer of humanity¡ªparticularly of women, with whom his work is preoccupied¡ªand in his portraits as well as in his studies of dancers, milliners, and laundresses, he cultivated a complete objectivity, attempting to catch his subjects in poses as natural and spontaneous as those recorded in action photographs.