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Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

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Edgar Degas (UK: , US: ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Degas is the 37th most popular painter (down from 32nd in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from France (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Painter.

Edgar Degas is most famous for his paintings of dancers.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edgar Degas ranks 37 out of 2,023. Before him are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, and Jan van Eyck. After him are Masaccio, Jacques-Louis David, Tintoretto, Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Mucha, and Paolo Veronese.

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Among people born in 1834, Edgar Degas ranks 2. Before him is Dmitri Mendeleev. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Venn, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, William Morris, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Léon Walras, and Carl Bloch. Among people deceased in 1917, Edgar Degas ranks 5. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, and Mata Hari. After him are L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 79 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Charles X of France (1757), Michel Foucault (1926), Jacques Chirac (1932), and Pope Urban II (1042). After him are Henry III of France (1551), Louis IX of France (1214), Henri Bergson (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Tacitus (54), and Jacques Cartier (1491).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 9. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), and Eugène Delacroix (1798). After him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684).

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