Tour: Edgar Degas

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Overview

Degas was born to an aristocratic family, unusually supportive of his desire to paint. As a young man he was greatly impressed by the disciplined style of neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who reportedly advised him to “Draw lines, young man, draw lines.”

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Captions

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1	Edgar Degas, Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli, c. 1865
2	Edgar Degas, Madame René de Gas, 1872/1873
3	Edgar Degas, Woman Viewed from Behind,
4	Edgar Degas, Woman Ironing, begun c. 1876, completed c. 1887
5	Edgar Degas, Four Dancers, c. 1899
6	Berthe Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1869/1870
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7	Edouard Vuillard, Théodore Duret, 1912