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The Dance Class is an 1874 oil painting on canvas by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [2]The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet.
The Dancing Class is an oil painting on wood executed ca. 1870 by the French artist Edgar Degas. It was the first of Degas's "ballet pictures". The painting depicts a dancing class at the Paris Opéra. [1] The dancer in the center is Joséphine Gaujelin (or Gozelin). [2]
The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1874 and 1876 by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] The painting depicts a group of ballet dancers at the end of a lesson, led by ballet master Jules Perrot. [1]
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [1] [2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
A Cotton Office exhibits a link to Degas's 1872 painting Dance Class at the Opera on the rue Le Peletier as both works feature a visible empty chair. While the chair in A Cotton Office holds raw cotton, the seat in Dance Class features a white cloth, a finished textile product. [25] Degas personally collected various fabrics.
L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. [1] Its original title was Dans un Café, [2] a name often used today. [3] Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café.
Ballerina Posing for a Photographer is an oil on canvas painting executed in 1875 by the French artist Edgar Degas.It depicts a young ballet dancer posing in front of a standing mirror; in the background, through a large window, is seen an elevated view of the walls of the houses opposite and the snow-covered rooftops of Paris.
Degas was a habitué of those places, especially the Cafe des Ambassadeurs, and he uses them as the settings for many of his works. Ballet Rehearsal (1873) and The Ballet Class (1874) also depict performers both on stage and in practice. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers alone.