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Edgar Degas

[French Realist/Impressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1834-1917]

• Also known as:  Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Many works by Edgar Degas online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
4 works online

Edgar Degas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Edgar Degas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Exhibition: Degas and the Dance

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Edgar Degas

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
11 works by Degas

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
56 works online by Degas

Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Many works, including: Dancers Practicing at the Bar, 1877
Self-portrait
The Collector of Prints
, 1866

Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Paule Gobillard, Jeannie Gobillard, Julie Manet, and Geneviève Mallarmé (photograph)

Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Dancer, ca.1880

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
13 works

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Edgar Degas online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Sculpture collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Pastel collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City  
At the Milliner's, ca.1882

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
73 works by Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Dance Lesson

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
A Nanny in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, ca.1875

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Many works

National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
About 11 works displayed over 2 pages of search results

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Orchestra Musicians (Musiciens à l'orchestre)

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Pathway in a Field

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Dancer Ready to Dance, with Right Foot Forward

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
The False Start

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina

Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California   NEW!
Woman at her Toilette (les bras), monotype, 1880-85

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dancer looking at the sole of her right foot, 1900-10

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
After the bath, ca.1900

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Grande Arabesque, troisième temps
Woman at Her Bath
, ca.1895

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Femme enceinte, ca.1890-1900

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Danseuse, ca.1885

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
La Sortie du bain [Leaving the Bath], ca.1879-80

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Manet, etching, 1864-65

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, East Sussex, England

Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)  
Femme se lavant jambe gauche

Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
Manet assis, tourné à droit, etching

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Dancer in Her Dressing Room

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Woman Viewed from Behind, ca.1879

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Dancing Lesson, ca.1880

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1880-81

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, pastel, ca.1884

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Three Ballet Dancers, monotype, ca.1878-80

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Before the Race, ca.1882

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Race Horses, ca.1873-75

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dancers, ca.1896

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Four Studies of the Head of a Young Italian Woman

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
10 works

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Cabaret, 1876/77
Dance Class (Ècole de danse), ca.1873

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Davistown Museum, Liberty, Maine
Mlle. Carpentier, ca.1860s

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe, pastel

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Beach Scene (Bains de Mer: Petite Fille peignée par sa Bonne)

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
A Young Woman with a White Headdress

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Thoroughbred Horse Walking, bronze

E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)

Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  

Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Femme à la coiffeuse

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Danseuse à la barre

Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Portrait of Hermann de Clermont, chalk drawing

Frick Collection, New York City
The Rehearsal, 1878-79

Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Study for Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1879-80

Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Dancers on a Bench

Glasgow Museums, Scotland
Grande Arabesque, Premier Temps

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Draught Horse, ca.1881

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Dancer with Red Stockings, 1883-85

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 drawings online

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Dancer Stretching
After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair


Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)  

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"

Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)  
Le Calvaire, copie d'après Mantegna, ca.1861

Edgar Degas in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand, bronze
Dancer, Seen from Behind
Dancers
Woman Washing Her Left Leg
, bronze

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
La Causerie (Conversation at the Racetrack)

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  
Danseuses sur la scène

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  
Le Café-concert des Ambassadeurs

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (in French)  
Danseuse

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)  
Portrait (Victorien Sardou?), ca.1880

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Petite Danseuse

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
At the Milliner's (Chez la modiste), ca.1882

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Woman ironing

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Choose the artist in the drop-down list and click "search"

New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
3 paintings online

Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Dancer in the Dressing Room, ca.1878/79

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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15 works by Edgar Degas online

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Mini-site for a 2003 exhibition: Degas and the Dance

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Three Studies of a Dancer

Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #3

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Dancers, ca.1899

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Blue Dancers, 1890s

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Three dancers at a dancing class, ca.1888-90

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
The Laundress

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art   NEW!
Dancer with a Bouquet (see top row)

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Cheval au trot

San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "D"

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Southampton City Gallery, England

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003 exhibition

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Foot, 1910

The British Museum, London, UK

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark   NEW!
Children on a Staircase (New Orleans, sketch), 1873

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark   NEW!
Three Dancers, pastel on paper, ca.1898

The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark   NEW!
Woman Combing Her Hair, pastel on paper, ca.1895-1900

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Dancers
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University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City   NEW!
Au Louvre: La Peinture (Mary Cassatt), 1863

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera 'Robert Le Diable', 1876

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Racecourse: Before the Start, ca.1880
Dressed Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg Forward, ca.1895
Horse Walking

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK   NEW!
Search results for "Edgar Degas"

 
Commercial Galleries:
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, UK -- Notable past sales
Chez La Modiste, pastel, ca.1883

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Place de la Concorde

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Star: Dancer on Point

Artonline

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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CGFA  

Rasiel's Wallpapers
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WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

Boston College Fine Arts Department

Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion
Dancers

ImageNETion
Woman Bathing

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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A young dancer of fourteen

The Athenaeum  
525 works online by Degas

The Halter Collection

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas, 1872

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Degas at Harvard (4 works online)

FBI Art Theft Program
Details of 5 drawings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

The BBC
2 works online

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Woman on an Orange Chaise, pastel drawing

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Spanish Dancer, bronze

The Modernist Journals Project

The Running Horse
1869 Carriage at the Races

The Running Horse
Racehorses at Longchamp

The Running Horse
Le faux départ, 1869-72

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edgar Degas
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist

International Herald Tribune
"A Magnificent New Perspective on Degas," article by Souren Melikian

Slate Magazine
"Camera Obscura: Degas' funereal photography," article by Christopher Benfey

Slate Magazine
"Better Late Than Never: The second half of Edgar Degas' career turns out to have been as powerful as the first," article by Christopher Benfey

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Hélène Rouart in Her Father's Study, 1886

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Princess Pauline de Metternich, ca.1865

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Degas' Private Collection Makes for Perfect Met Show

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Loner, Misfit Degas: Lover of Bathers Was Never Impressionist

Time Magazine
"Seeing Degas as Never Before", 1988 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"An Impressionist Abroad", 1999 article by Robert Hughes

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation

  
Edgar Degas: Aux Ambassadeurs





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