Edgar Degas - The dancer at the photographer Magnet

The dancer at the photographer by Edgar Degas About Edgar Degas Degas was born in Paris, France, the eldest of five children of C�lestine Musson De Gas and Augustin De Gas, a banker. The family was moderately wealthy. Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.