The Dance Class  1874

by Edgar Degas

This work and its variant in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to the theme of the dance. Some twenty-four women, ballerinas and their mothers, wait while a dancer executes an "attitude" for her examination. Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, conducts the class. The imaginary scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old Paris ...
Size: 
83.5 x 77.2 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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