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The family was moderately wealthy. Degas began to paint seriously early in his life. By eighteen he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio, and had begun making copies in the Louvre, but his father expected him to go to law school. Degas duly registered at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris in November , but made little effort at his studies there.

In , Degas met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whom he revered, and was advised by him to "draw lines, young man, many lines.

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In July , Degas traveled to Italy, where he would remain for the next three years. There he drew and painted copies after Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other artists of the Renaissance, often selecting from an altarpiece an individual head which he treated as a portrait. It was during this period that Degas studied and became accomplished in the techniques of high, academic, and classical art.

After returning from Italy in , Degas continued his education by copying paintings at the Louvre; he was to remain an enthusiastic copyist well into middle age. He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in , when the jury accepted his painting Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which attracted little attention. Although he exhibited annually in the Salon during the next five years, he submitted no more history paintings, and his Steeplechase—The Fallen Jockey Salon of signaled his growing commitment to contemporary subject matter.

At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in , Degas enlisted in the National Guard, where his defense of Paris left him little time for painting. During rifle training his eyesight was found to be defective, and for the rest of his life his eye problems were a constant worry to him. Staying in a house on Esplanade Avenue, Degas produced a number of works, many depicting family members.

One of Degas' New Orleans works, depicting a scene at The Cotton Exchange at New Orleans, garnered favorable attention back in France, and was his only work purchased by a museum that of Pau during his lifetime. Degas returned to Paris in