The Dance Class

Title

The Dance Class

Rights

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain.

Creator

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Date

1874 C.E.

Description

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.

Format

Painting. Oil on canvas. 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in.

Publisher

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Contributor

Becky Pratt-Sturges

Identifier

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987.47.1

Subject

Ballet; ballet dancers; dancers; dance studio; dance instructor; ballerina; ballet master; Paris Opera; ballet rehearsal

Source

Jpg file. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 10/18/2021
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438817