Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas. CNN values your feedback 1.

Edgar Degas was transfixed by the beauty of the ballet — but even more fascinated by the hard work of its dancers. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is showcasing an exhibit of his ...

From family portraits to absinthe drinkers, racehorses to circus performers, Edgar Degas depicted many subjects in his pieces, but his most prolific output was paintings of young Parisian ballerinas.

Edgar Degas' "Entrance of the Masked Dancers," c. 1879, part of The Clark's collection, exemplifies the artists' multifaceted use of pastel, with the medium being applied to the surface in different ...

The life of Marie van Goethem, the ballerina depicted in Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” is the subject of the Kennedy Center musical “Little Dancer,” opening Oct. 25.

To finish her restoration of “Dancers at the Bar,” Steele applied a coat of matte varnish to protect the painting without making it glossy. On January 10, Lilli Steele hung “Dancers at the Bar” in the ...

Edgar Degas’ treasured “Russian Dancers” artwork has been renamed “Ukrainian Dancers” by the UK’s National Gallery more than 120 years after it was drawn.

‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ (1878-81), by Edgar Degas. ILLUSTRATION: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon ...

Climate protesters smear paint on Edgar Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture in Washington D.C. By . David Propper. Published April 27, 2023. Updated April 27, 2023, 11:46 p.m. ET.

"Little Dancer," a sculpture by French artist Edgar Degas, is seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on July 16, 2014. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption ...