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Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar (b. July 19, , Paris, Frd. Sept. 27, , Paris)
French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion.

Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses.

The art of Degas reflects a concern for the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony of line and continuity of contour.

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These characteristics set Degas apart from the other impressionist painters, although he took part in all but one of the 8 impressionist exhibitions between and Degas was the son of a wealthy banker, and his aristocratic family background instilled into his early art a haughty yet sensitive quality of detachment.

As he grew up, his idol was the painter Jean Auguste Ingres, whose example pointed him in the direction of a classical draftsmanship, stressing balance and clarity of outline. After