El impresionismo edgar degas biography
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La Classe de danse
Artist(s)
Degas Edgar
auteur
Paris (France) 1834 - Paris (France) 1917
Others accession number
Accession number
Description
huile sur toile
Dimensions
H. 85,5 ; L. 75,0 cm.
avec cadre H. 109,5 ; L. 99,3 cm
Inscription(s)
S.b.g. : Degas
Place of conservation
musée d'Orsay
1876, dans la collection Ch. W. Deschamps, Londres, livré par l'artiste
de 1876 à 1889, dans la collection capitaine Henri Hill, Brighton
1889, Collection Hill, Londres, Christie's, 25 mai, n°27
collection Goupil et Cie, Paris
1889, dans la collection Michel Manzi, Paris
de 1894 à 1911, dans la collection du comte Isaac de Camondo, Paris
1911, accepté par l'Etat à titre de legs aux Musées nationaux du comte Isaac de Camondo pour le musée du Louvre (comité du 27/04/1911, conseil du 08/05/1911, arrêté du 23/11/1911)
1911, attribué au musée du Louvre, Paris
de 1911 à 1947, musée du Louvre, Paris (exposé à partir de 1914)
de 1947 à 1986, musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1986, affecté au musée d'Orsay, Paris
Modality of acquisition
legs
Twelfth Exhibition of pictures by modern french artists - 168 New Bond Street - Royaume-
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In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, among others. The group was unified only by its independence from the official annual Salon, for which a jury of artists from the Académie des Beaux-Arts selected artworks and awarded medals. The independent artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group. While conservative critics panned their work for its unfinished, sketchlike appearance, more progressive writers praised it for its depiction of modern life. Edmond Duranty, for example, in his 1876 essay La Nouvelle Peinture (The New Painting), wrote of their depiction of contemporary subject matter in a suitably innovative style as a revolution in painting. The exhibiting collective avoided choosing a title that would imply a unified movement or school, although some of them subsequently adopted the name by which they would eventually be known, the Impressionists. Their work is recognized today for its modernity, embodied in its rejection of established styles, its incorporation of new technology and ideas, and its depict
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Swaying Cooperator (Dancer wring Green)
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