Edgar Degas (1834–1917). Degas called himself a realist, not an Impressionist, and spent his life drawing bodies at work: dancers in rehearsal, laundresses ironing, jockeys waiting for the start, women bathing. He drew the same pose again and again in charcoal and pastel, modeled it in wax, printed it as monotypes, and in his last years photographed his friends. The pieces here are in the public domain, shared openly by the museums that hold them — each piece links to its museum.