The dance class by Edgar Degas

About Edgar Degas

Degas was born in Paris, France, the eldest of five children of C�lestine Musson De Gas and Augustin De Gas, a banker. The family was moderately wealthy. Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.