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Degas and Other Sketches
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Edgar DegasFrench Photographer · 1834–1917
All works by this person →> No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament . . . I know nothing. > > --Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. His training was conventional: he spent five years in Italy, studied the O
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- 1877
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- Drawing
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- French
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- Drawings
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- Getty Museum
After dinner with his friends, Edgar Degas would often pull out his sketchbook to draw. He also passed it around, allowing others to make quick caricatures on its pages. On this sheet, the composer Ernest Reyer seems to have turned the tables, making the artist himself the subject in his own book. Reyer was a friend of Degas, and he himself appears in other drawings in this book. Ludovic Halévy added the inscription at the bottom: *Degas par [Ernest] Reyer* (Degas by Reyer).
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