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The Dance Class
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WMET0050
Our Inspiration: The Dance Class
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas, 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in., 1874
Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986 1987.47.1
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 24 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.
Our Inspiration: The Dance Class
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas, 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in., 1874
Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986 1987.47.1
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 24 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.