This disclosure concerns a display device including: scanning lines; data lines; a drive transistor controlling a current through a light emitting element; a bias transistor connected between a gate of the drive transistor and a first signal line transmitting a negative bias lower than a potential of the second power supply; a Vt detection transistor setting a threshold voltage of the drive transistor; a capacitor applying a potential difference between gate-source of the drive transistor; a scanning transistor setting a potential of the data line to the second electrode; a scanning line driver; and a data line driver transmitting potential data to the pixel columns, wherein before setting the threshold voltage to the first electrode, the bias transistor connects the first signal line to the gate of the drive transistor and applies the negative bias to the gate of the drive transistor.