Throughout art history Edgar Degas has been categorised as a nationalist, misogynist and experimental artist. But, is this an accurate portrayal? Considering Degas’s life and work from the streets of Paris to the walls of the salon – who was Degas really?

To Degas the city of 19th Century Paris was a site of extraordinary modern existential possibilities a repository for his imagery of ‘Parisianness’. See Paris through the eyes of the most Parisian of painters in this lecture focusses on the city, its surrounds and influence on Degas.

In a series of three lectures, Dr Roberta Crisci-Richardson, author of Mapping Degas, challenges popular notions of Degas by considering his life and work in his context of nineteenth century France.

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