Portrait of Paul Valpinçon, c. 1855, Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917, 15 7/8 x 12 3/4 in. ( x cm) (canvas)24 x 20 3/8 x 3 1/8 in. ( x x cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, France, 19th century, Edgar Degas and Paul Valpinçon had a lifelong friendship that began even before the two became classmates in 1846. In fact, their fathers were friends. Paul’s father, Edouard Valpinçon, played a role in Degas’s artistic development by encouraging the young artist’s interest in the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

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