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The Star [Dancer on Stage] by Edgar Degas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Degas did a large series of paintings and sculptures of ballet dancers, all levels of dancers and on the stage and behind the scenes. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, but Degas preferred to call himself a realist. His ambition was to be a history painter, much like David, however, in his early thirties, he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.