Image captions

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Self-Portrait Aged around Twenty-One, c. 1855. Graphite on paper Private collection

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Castel Sant’Elmo, from Capodimonte, c.1856–9. Oil on paper laid down on canvas © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Young Female Dancer Adjusting her Tights (detail), c.1880. Black chalk and graphite on laid paper, squared for transfer with charcoal and touched with white © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Dance Examination, 1880. Pastel on paper © Denver Art Museum

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Arabesque over the Right Leg, Left Arm in Front, First Study, c.1882–95. Coloured wax over a commercially prefabricated metal wire armature, attached to a wooden base © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), At the Café (detail), c.1875–7. Oil on canvas © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Avenue of Trees in the Bois du Boulogne (detail), c. 1880. Monotype on Oriental paper © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Three Women at the Races (detail), c.1885, pastel on paper © Denver Art Museum

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Female Nude Drying her Neck (detail), c.1903. Charcoal on tracing paper The Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge (Keynes Collection) © The Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge

R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007), Degas, 1980. Pastel and charcoal on paper, private collection © R.B. Kitaj Estate, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art