Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on paper.
At the Ballet school of the Paris Opera.
He is famous for his studies of ballet dancers in rehearsal and on stage.Several portraits of his relatives, best known is The Bellelli Family.
The french painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was famous for both his painting and scupltures of dancers. Google the painting 'Ballet Rehearsal' or 'Little Dancer of Fourteen Years' to see some of his best work.
Edgar Degas.
Edgar Degas is known for painting ballet scenes.
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas.
Ballet dancers.
He traveled to see american ballet dancers
Ballet dancers, portraits of people, race horses.
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas 19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917
Degas painted a lot of ballet dancers, because he liked to study the human body in action.