He studied dancers because he was interested in how the human body works.
Edgar Degas did.
Yes, he did, bot more dancers and horses.
There are two Degas paintings of that name. One from 1890, now in the Orsay Museum, Paris. The other from 1898/99, now in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
He was interested in bodies at work.
He had his own dance studio and when they had a break he would sketch them fixing their shoes.
His favorite subject was ballet dancers, who he painted at dancing school and at performances.
Yes.
Degas painted a lot of ballet dancers, because he liked to study the human body in action.
They were anonymous.
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Edgar Degas.
Degas painted in the impressionist style.