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Who painted it?
Who painted “Dancer Posing for a Photographer (Dancer in Front of the Window)”?
“Dancer Posing for a Photographer (Dancer in Front of the Window)” was painted by Edgar Degas in 1875. Where to see it: Pushkin Museum.
What to look for
Edgar Degas: dancers, laundresses and horse races caught off-centre as if by a camera, pastel strokes, odd cropped viewpoints.
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Wikipedia
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More by Edgar Degas
- “L'Absinthe”, 1876
- “The Bellelli Family”, 1858
- “A Cotton Office in New Orleans”, 1873
- “Place de la Concorde”, 1875
- “The Ballet Class”, 1871
- “After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself”, 1890–1895
- “Mr. and Mrs. Édouard Manet”, 1868
- “Young Spartans Exercising”, 1860