Edgar Degas
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, ca. 1874
Oil colors mixed with turpentine, watercolor and pastel over pen and ink on paper
Paris
€98,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Public Domain
- Medium
- Mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions
- 75.6 × 81.3 cm
- Category
- Painting
- Location
- Paris
- Availability
- On hold
Price on request
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About the work
Two dancers stretch at the barre, balanced against the bold diagonal of a watering can on the floor. Degas treats rehearsal labor as a subject worthy of high art.
ImpressionismBallet
