1834 - 1917
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 2,815,856 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Edgar Degas is the 32nd most popular painter (up from 33rd in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from France (up from 58th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Painter.
Edgar Degas is most famous for his paintings of dancers.
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Among painters, Edgar Degas ranks 32 out of 1,428. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, Hieronymus Bosch, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian. After him are Marc Chagall, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques-Louis David, Giotto, and René Magritte.
1841 - 1919
HPI: 85.43
Rank: 26
1832 - 1883
HPI: 85.41
Rank: 27
1798 - 1863
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 28
1450 - 1516
HPI: 85.11
Rank: 29
1866 - 1944
HPI: 85.01
Rank: 30
1872 - 1944
HPI: 84.62
Rank: 31
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 32
1887 - 1985
HPI: 84.42
Rank: 33
1780 - 1867
HPI: 84.10
Rank: 34
1884 - 1920
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 35
1748 - 1825
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 36
1267 - 1337
HPI: 83.87
Rank: 37
1898 - 1967
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 38
Among people born in 1834, Edgar Degas ranks 2. Before him is Dmitri Mendeleev. After him are Gottlieb Daimler, Ernst Haeckel, William Morris, John Venn, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Léon Walras, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Among people deceased in 1917, Edgar Degas ranks 3. Before him are Émile Durkheim and Auguste Rodin. After him are Mata Hari, Octave Mirbeau, L. L. Zamenhof, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Buffalo Bill, Eduard Buchner, Edward Burnett Tylor, Adolf von Baeyer, and Franz Brentano.
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 1
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 2
1834 - 1900
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 4
1834 - 1896
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 5
1834 - 1923
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 6
1834 - 1904
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 7
1834 - 1890
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 8
1834 - 1910
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 9
1834 - 1914
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 10
1834 - 1886
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1834 - 1903
HPI: 70.38
Rank: 12
1858 - 1917
HPI: 85.97
Rank: 1
1840 - 1917
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 2
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 3
1876 - 1917
HPI: 83.93
Rank: 4
1848 - 1917
HPI: 83.53
Rank: 5
1859 - 1917
HPI: 82.95
Rank: 6
1838 - 1917
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 7
1846 - 1917
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 8
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 9
1832 - 1917
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 10
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 11
1838 - 1917
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 55 out of 5,234. Before him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Auguste Rodin (1840), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Cardinal Richelieu (1585). After him are Georges Bizet (1838), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Michel Foucault (1926), and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520).
1821 - 1880
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 49
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 50
1840 - 1917
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 51
1863 - 1937
HPI: 84.78
Rank: 52
1601 - 1643
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 53
1585 - 1642
HPI: 84.64
Rank: 54
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 55
1838 - 1875
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 56
1601 - 1665
HPI: 84.48
Rank: 57
1934 - Present
HPI: 84.41
Rank: 58
1854 - 1891
HPI: 84.36
Rank: 59
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 60
1520 - 1594
HPI: 84.32
Rank: 61
Among painters born in France, Edgar Degas ranks 8. Before him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Édouard Manet (1832), and Eugène Delacroix (1798). After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), and Georges Braque (1882).
1848 - 1903
HPI: 86.84
Rank: 2
1839 - 1906
HPI: 86.76
Rank: 3
1869 - 1954
HPI: 86.34
Rank: 4
1841 - 1919
HPI: 85.43
Rank: 5
1832 - 1883
HPI: 85.41
Rank: 6
1798 - 1863
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 7
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 8
1780 - 1867
HPI: 84.10
Rank: 9
1748 - 1825
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 10
1819 - 1877
HPI: 82.88
Rank: 11
1594 - 1665
HPI: 82.82
Rank: 12
1864 - 1901
HPI: 82.78
Rank: 13
1882 - 1963
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 14