The Dance Class is an oil on canvas work (32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)) painted by Edgar Degas in 1874, and is one of his most famous works featuring ballet dancers. The painting depicts a ...

“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern ...

The immediate reason becomes apparent as soon as you step around the wall into the first gallery, which contains a small, damaged Degas painting ... depiction of a dance class.

Plate size 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches 13 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches Signed, Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917). Danseuse (Ballerina Dancer). Hand Pulled Copper plate etching, printed in Green ink, on cream laid paper after ...

Edgar Degas ... found like this in Degas’s studio after his death.” In the painting of Fiocre, it’s during a rehearsal break—she’s in a moment of reverie, her ballet pumps beside ...

Degas’s paintings of ballerinas often reference a darker side of the dance industry in the late 19th century, when ballet’s popularity was beginning to fade and many dancers from lower-class ...

NBM, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-68112-324-0 Spanish cartoonists Salva and Efa follow up Monet with a stylish and stylized chronicle of the life of French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834–1917).

"Figure painting dominated his production, but throughout his career, [he was] also a landscape painter." “Edgar Degas: A Multimedia Artist in the Age of Impressionism," on view at The Clark through ...