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Short biography from the French Impressionist and Realist painter Edgar Degas ( 1834 - 1917 ). |
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The French Impressionist and Realist painter Edgar Degas born in 1834, Paris, France. The first study from him was on the school Louis le Grand, he graduated in 1853. Degas start to painting early, when he was only 18 he had an own studio in the house of his father. When Edgar Degas studied drawings at the school Beaux Arts he met Louis Lamothe and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. In 1856 he moved to Italy for 3 years. Painted there copies from Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael and some other painters of Renaissance. Degas art works where accepted in the Salon in 1865. Edgar Degas, the famous Impressionist painter died in 1917. |
The French Impressionist and Realist painter Edgar Degas. |
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