Place de la Concorde
Edgar Degas · 1875
Why it's great
A man in a top hat, with his two daughters, walks across a big, empty square in Paris. Degas painted the family of Viscount Lepic from an unusual angle, with the people cut off by the edges. It looks like a photograph. It's a very modern composition.
Where to see it
📍 Hermitage MuseumSaint Petersburg, Russia
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Edgar Degas was born in Paris to a well-to-do family and lived there almost all his life. He's linked to the Impressionists, but preferred to work indoors, painting ballet dancers, racehorses, and women at their daily routines. He loved to catch unusual angles, as if a camera had snapped the scene. In old age his eyesight failed and he turned to sculpture.
