Edgar Degas

impressionism

Edgar Degas Paintings 1834 - 1917 Painter,Sculptor, France, Impressionism

The Rehearsal Of The Ballet Onstage, 1874

Oil colors, watercolor, pastel, pen on paper, 21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in. (54.3 x 73 cm)

Metropolitan museum of Art, London, UK

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OIL PAINTING: The Rehearsal Of The Ballet Onstage, 1874
Classe Danse In the early 1870s the female ballet dancer became Degas ' favorite theme. Degas sketched from a live model in his studio and combined poses into groupings that depicted rehearsal and performance scenes in which dancers on stage, entering the stage, and resting or waiting to perform are shown simultaneously and in counterpoint, often from an oblique angle of vision -''The Rehearsal Of The Ballet Onstage''.