The Dance Class (1874). Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, P
The Dance Class (1874). Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.When this work and its variant in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, were painted in the mid-1870s, they constituted Degas’s most ambitious figural dance compositions. A dancer executes for her examination. Jules Perrot, a ballet master in Europe, conducts the class. The imaginary scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old Paris Opéra. -- source link
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