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
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