Q 01/05

Besides the ballet, which sport gave Degas a favourite subject from the early 1860s onward?

A) Bullfighting

B) Prize fighting

C) Ice skating

D) Horse racing

Answer · why

D) Horse racing

Horse racing. He haunted the track at Longchamp, and a close-up of a thrown jockey at the 1866 Salon is now read as the public announcement of a chang...

Q 02/05

What did Degas prefer to be called instead of an Impressionist?

A) A naturalist

B) A symbolist

C) A realist

D) A classicist

Answer · why

C) A realist

A realist. He called the first group show 'a salon of Realists' and later told the painter Walter Sickert it was a pity they had ever let themselves b...

Q 03/05

In which city was Degas born in 1834?

A) Lyon

B) Paris

C) Naples

D) Marseille

Answer · why

B) Paris

Paris. He was born just south of Montmartre and, apart from three years of study in Italy, kept his home and studio in that corner of the city for the...

Q 04/05

Which American city did Degas's mother come from?

A) Charleston

B) New Orleans

C) Savannah

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

B) New Orleans

New Orleans. Her Creole family had settled there from Haiti in 1810, and in 1872 her son crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter with his American un...

Q 05/05

Which master told the young Degas to 'draw lines, young man, and still more lines'?

A) Ingres

B) Delacroix

C) Corot

D) Courbet

Answer · why

A) Ingres

Ingres. Degas met the old master in 1855 and never forgot the advice; decades later, once he could afford to collect, he made Ingres one of the best-r...