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Edgar Degas: Semiramis Building Babylon  wikidata:Q3955081 reasonator:Q3955081
Artist
Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)  wikidata:Q46373 s:fr:Auteur:Edgar Degas q:en:Edgar Degas
 
Edgar Degas
Alternative names
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death 19 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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Paris; Belgium; Florence; London Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q46373
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Title
Semiramis building Babylon Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Semiramis building Babylon Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Semiramis building Babylon Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Semiramide alla costruzione di Babilonia"
label QS:Lfr,"Sémiramis construisant Babylone"
label QS:Lnl,"Semiramis Building Babylon"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: In the early 1860s, Degas experimented with history paintings which never left his studio. One example is the Semiramis Building Babylon which may have been an allusion to the radical redesign of Paris being undertaken by Baron Haussmann.
Depicted people Semiramis Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1860 / 1861 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 151 cm (59.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 258 cm (101.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+151U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+258U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23402
Accession number
RF 2207 (Musée d'Orsay) Edit this at Wikidata
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