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He is most well-known for the gathering of glistening, gilded works he produced throughout his Golden Phase. Unlike other Impressionists,Edgar Degaswas not preoccupied with gentle and nature. Instead, he preferred to seize intimate indoor depictions (seen “as if you seemed through a key-hole”). This curiosity is clear in his collection of ballet paintings—set each in studios and on stage—as nicely as his voyeuristic pastel collection of girls atla toilette. Though much less prevalent than ballerinas and bathers, horseback riders typically seem in Degas’ oeuvre.

Paintings underneath his rule had been more formal, featuring court scenes, in distinction to the non-public …