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Article: Degas and Manet: a study in friendship: Jeffrey Meyers explores the intense, admiring, but often wary relationship between two great artists whose lives, as well as art, had many parallels.(Edgar Degas)(Edouard Manet)(Cover Story)
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- February 1, 2005
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Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet first met in the Louvre, that thriving crossroads of social life, in the latter half of 1861, when they were both in their late twenties. Degas was etching a copy of Velazquez's painting of a royal child, The Infanta Margarita (1653). He recalled that he 'had started to work with his needle directly on the already grounded plate, without the aid of a preparatory drawing, when he was interrupted by a voice behind him saying, "You have a lot of nerve, and with that method you'll be lucky if you come out with anything." ' (1) This dramatic encounter in the centre of the French art world brought together Manet's favourite painter, Degas' ...
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