(1832–1883) The artist’s works: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s No date Manet in Art: Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue Condamine 1870 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Manet et son chevalet 1868–1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bracquemond,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait de l’artiste (Self-Portrait) 1855 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 81.5 x 65 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Autoportrait au col blanc (Self-Portrait with White Collar) c.1857 Oil on paper on canvas, 20.5 x 15 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)
Opened: 1871 Closed: 2004 Address: 9 Place Pigalle, 75009 Paris, France The Café de la Nouvelle Athènes in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe 1875–1876 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Prune c.1877 National Gallery of Art, Washington…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Dans un café, dit aussi L’Absinthe (In a Cafe or Absinthe) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 92 x 68.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed…