Musée d’Orsay Edgar Degas

One my second trip to the Musée d’Orsay I soaked in the works of Edgar Degas. Degas was a highly celebrated 19th century French Impressionist. “By 1868, Degas had become a prominent member of a group of avant-garde artists including Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, who gathered frequently at the Café Guerbois to discuss ways in which artists could engage the modern world” [click to read more].

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Degas’ La classe de danse / The Ballet Class (1871–1874)

Degas’ Le Foyer de la danse/ The Dance Foyer at the Opera (1872)

Degas’ La Petite Danseuse / Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1879–1881)

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See all of my posts from the Musée d’Orsay which include iconic works of art from impressionist and post-impressionist masters like Renior, Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Millet, and more.