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Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

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Edgar Degas (UK: , US: ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Degas has received more than 3,445,985 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Edgar Degas is the 30th most popular painter (up from 32nd in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from France (down from 55th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Painter.

Edgar Degas is most famous for his paintings of dancers.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edgar Degas ranks 30 out of 1,421. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Greco, and Hieronymus Bosch. After him are Jacques-Louis David, Jan van Eyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, and Gustave Courbet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Edgar Degas ranks 2. Before him is Dmitri Mendeleev. After him are Ernst Haeckel, Gottlieb Daimler, John Venn, William Morris, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Léon Walras, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among people deceased in 1917, Edgar Degas ranks 4. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, and Auguste Rodin. After him are Mata Hari, L. L. Zamenhof, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil von Behring, and Buffalo Bill.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 58 out of 6,011. Before him are Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Michel Foucault (1926), William the Conqueror (1028), Stendhal (1783), and Gustave Flaubert (1821). After him are Georges Bizet (1838), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Claude Debussy (1862), and Henri Becquerel (1852).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 7. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), Paul Gauguin (1848), Eugène Delacroix (1798), and Édouard Manet (1832). After him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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