Q 01/05

Which subject appears in more than half of Degas's works?

A) Racehorses

B) Dancers

C) Laundresses

D) Bathers

Answer · why

B) Dancers

Ballet pictures sold well and paid the family debts his brother René ran up.

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

He mocked colleagues for painting outdoors and joked about gendarmes with bird-shot for landscapists.

Q 03/05

In which city was Degas born in 1834?

A) Lyon

B) New Orleans

C) Naples

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

His mother was a Creole from New Orleans and his father a banker.

Q 04/05

Which American city did Degas's Creole mother come from?

A) Charleston

B) New Orleans

C) Savannah

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

B) New Orleans

Her father Germain Musson was born in Port-au-Prince and settled there in 1810.

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

They met in 1855, the year Degas entered the École des Beaux-Arts.