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Edgar Degas French

1874

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 815

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 Opéra, which had recently burned to the ground. On the wall beside the mirror, a poster for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell pays tribute to the singer Jean-Baptiste Faure, who commissioned the picture and lent it to the 1876 Impressionist exhibition.

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Overview Catalogue Entry Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Provenance Exhibition History References Notes

Title: The Dance Class

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

Date: 1874

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986

Object Number: 1987.47.1

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