• The Dance Class’ was created in 1874 by Edgar Degas in Impressionism style.
  • He was baptized Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas, but adopted the less pretentious “Degas” early in his career as an artist.
  • Degas thus transformed the original work into a kind of homage to Perrot, turning the foreground dancer away from the viewer so as not to distract from his...
  • Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor backstage and in the dance studio...
  • Edgar Degas created Dance Class and Ballet Class in 1874. They are two near-identical paintings, with the former now stored at the Met Museum in New York and...
  • The Dancing Class is an oil painting on wood executed ca. 1870 by the French artist Edgar Degas. It was the first of Degas's "ballet pictures".
  • Edgar Degas created Dance Class and Ballet Class in 1874. They are two near-identical paintings, with the former now stored at the Met Museum in New York and...
  • The Dance Class, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Oil on canvas.