Edgar Degas - Ballet Dancers in the Wings
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Ballet Dancers in the Wings
Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edgar Degas was one of the founders of Impressionism, however, he didn’t like the term and preferred to call it “Realist” or “Independent”. Ballet dancers were one of his main subjects. “People call me the painter of dancing girls,” Degas once told Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard. “It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.”
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Date
1900
Source
Saint Louis Art Museum
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public domain