Edgar Degas, French Artist, July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false." — Degas
Eugène Manet, 1874
Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 33.9 //
Private Collection
Three Ukrainian Dancers, 1895
Pastel, 24.5 x 20.9 in //
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
At the Milliner's, 1882
Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting, 30 x 34 in //
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Self Portrait with Evariste de Valernes, c.1865
Oil on canvas, 45.9 x 35.3 in
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Self Portrait Saluting, 1863 92x61cm
Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 24 in //
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
At the Mirror, c. 1889
Pastel on paper, 19.3 x 25.2 in //
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Harlequin and Columbina, 1886
Two Riders by a Lake, c.1861
Pen and ink //
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris
Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting,
c. 1878–80
Oil on wood panel, 16 3/4 x 19 11/16 in //
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dancer in Ukrainian Dress, 1899
Pastel over charcoal on tracing paper, 24.3 in x 17.9 in //
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lowering the Curtain, c.1880
Pastel
Private Collection
Houses at the Foot of a Cliff (Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme.), circa 1895-1898
Oil on canvas, 36.2 in x 28.6 in //
Columbus Museum of Art
The Road, 1878
Monotype (black ink) on china paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Portrait of a Woman, 1877
Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 × 21 in //
Detroit Institute of Art
Woman with a Bandage, between 1872 and 1873
Oil on canvas, 13 × 9 3/4 in //
Detroit Institute of Art
Violinist and Young Woman, ca. 1871
Oil and crayon on canvas, 18 1/4 × 22 in //
Detroit Institute of Art
Woman with a Vase, 1872
Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 21.3 in //
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas, 1871 - 1872
Oil on canvas, 21.25x 15.35 in //
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Louis-Marie Pilet, Violoncellist in the Orchestra of the Opéra, 1868-69
Oil on canvas, 19.9 x 24 in //
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study, circa 1886
Oil on canvas, 63.9 x 47.6 in //
National Gallery, London
Place de la Concorde, 1875
Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 46.2 in //
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
The Bellelli Family, 1858
Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 98.4 in //
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
At the Races in the Countryside, 1869
Oil on canvas, 14.37 x 22 in //
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Orchestra at the Opera, circa 1870.
Oil on canvas, 22.2 x 17.7 in //
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Woman Getting out of the Bath, c. 1877
Pastel over monotype on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée, 1879
Pastel on green-grey paper, 19 x 16.5 in //
Private collection
Two Dancers, ca. 1879
Pastel and gouache on paper, 18 1/8 x 26 ¼ in //
Shelburne Museum, Vermont
Woman in a Tub, 1886
Pastel on paper, 27.5 x 27.5 in //
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut