“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern life he has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The ballet dancers were treated as a kind of game preserve': The Rehearsal Onstage by Edgar Degas (c 1874), on view at The Met, ...

Charcoal and pastel on joined paper laid down on card Degas' fascination with the world of the ballet began in the 1860s but the work from his later career is distinguished by his move from producing ...