The Ballet Class  1880

Oil on canvas, 32 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches (82.2 x 76.8 cm) [br] Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937 Label: In this everyday scene from backstage at the Paris Opéra, a ballet instructor observes two young dancers while a mother sits reading in the foreground. Degas spent a great deal of time in the corridors and rehearsal rooms of the ...