Olga's Gallery
Edgar Degas
(1834-1917)
Biography
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Edgar Degas was born into the family of bankers of aristocratic extraction. His mother died in 1847, so the boy's father, Auguste de Gas, and grandfather, Hilaire de Gas, were the most influential figures in his early life. Despite his own desire to paint he began to study law, but broke off his studies in 1853. He frequented Félix Joseph Barrias’s studio and spent his time copying Renaissance works. In 1854-1859 he made several trips to Italy, some of the time visiting relatives, studying the Old Masters; he painted historical pictures and realistic portraits of his relatives: Read Edgar Degas's Full Biography
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Self-Portrait. c.1855. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. 
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Portrait of Achille de Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet. 1856-57. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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Portrait of Hilaire de Gas. 1857. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Roman Beggar Woman. 1857. Oil on canvas. City Museum and Art Gallery, Burmingham, UK.
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Portrait of Marguerite de Gas, the Artist's Sister. 1858-1860. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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On the Racing Field. 1861. Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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The Dead Fox. c.1861-1864. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France.
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Gentlemen Jockeys before the Start. 1862. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Self-Portrait. c.1863. Oil on canvas. Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Breaking-In. 1860s. Pastel on paper. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.
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Portrait of Thérèse de Gas, the Artist's Sister. c.1863. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Edmondo Morbilli. c.1865. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Read Note.
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Woman with Chrysanthemums. 1865. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Spartan Girls Challenging Boys. c.1860-62. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK.
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Semiramis Building Babylon. 1861. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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The Bellelli Family. 1858-67. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
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The Suffering of the City of New Orleans. !865. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Degas and Evariste de Valernes, Painter and a Friend of the Artist. c.1865. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Portrait of Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli. . 1865. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
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Girl in Red. c.1866. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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The Collector. 1866. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Race Horses. c.1866-68. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Mme Eugenie Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source". c.1867-68. Oil on canvas. The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
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Portrait of the Artist James Tissot. 1867-68. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
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Young Woman Standing Next to a Table. c.1867-68. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Algiers.
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Portrait of Louis-Marie Pilet, Violoncellist in the Orchestra of the Opera. 1868-69. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Edouard Manet. c.1868-69. Oil on canvas. Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan. Read Note.
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Carriage at the Races. 1869. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA.
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Interior with Two People (Intérieur avec deux personnages). c.1869. Oil on canvas. Collection of F. Simens, Berlin. Now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Woman Ironing. c.1869. Oil on canvas. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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Bad Mood. c.1869-71. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Portrait of Madame Camus. 1869-70. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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The Orchestra at the Opera House. c.1870. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Dancer at the Photographer's. 1870s. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.
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Orchestra Musicians. 1870-71. Oil on canvas. Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunsstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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