Dégas was a French artist and a key figure in the Impressionist movement. While many of his contemporaries concentrated on landscapes and outdoor scenes, Dégas focused mainly on people and movement, often portraying everyday life in Paris. He pushed boundaries through painting, sculpture, and printmaking alike: studying the beauty in unguarded moments and the unseen hitherto concealed by academic art. His extensive experimentation of ballet dancers and bathing women, and racing scenes, often reduced his human subjects to passive objects of observation, drawing close parallels between his detached study of animals and his voyeuristic depiction of women. It underscores a controversial philosophy that often treated the female body with the same animalistic, purely physical detachment as his equine subjects. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and their portrayal of human isolation.
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