Edgar Degas: Of Dandies, Ballerinas, And Women Ironing

Edgar Degas: Of Dandies, Ballerinas, And Women Ironing

At the age of 36 his sight began to fail. He could no longer stand bright daylight. In only a few years he would go blind, this he knew. Edgar Degas, the son of an Italian banker, had stopped studying law to become a painter. He was a brilliant portraitist, but even more than this he loved to paint the dynamics of movement in horse races, to sketch the milliners on the boulevards, to depict with his paintbrush or pastel crayons the young women who worked as laundresses and water-carriers. Like n
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