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Edgar Degas"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

Two Dancers on a Stage, 1874

Edgar Degas was a French artist born on July 19, 1834. Degas contributed to the Impressionist movement and died on September 27, 1917. Get notified when Edgar Degas's biography is complete:

Man on a couch

Self Portrait with Fedora

Young Woman with Ibis

Portrait of Estelle Balfour

Head of a Yound Woman

Study of a Seated Woman

Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Two Dancers on a Stage

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Mary Cassatt

Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs

Portrait of Zacherie Zacharian

Berthe Morisot

The soul of Impressionism

Mary Cassatt

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Edgar Degas

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

A return to stained-glass grace

Edward Burne-Jones Edgar Degas

A lesson in making enemies

James McNeill Whistler

The beautiful weirdness of nature

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