Degas, Edgar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...zhermaN edgar d ga , 1834 1917, French painter and sculptor, b. Paris; son of a banker...Arts with L. Lamothe, a student of Ingres, and in Italy, copying 15th- and 16th...impressionism. Trained in the linear tradition of Ingres, Degas shared with the impressionists...