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Danseuse debout (c.1877)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Danseuse debout (Dancer Standing) c.1877 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 46 x 49.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Deux danseuses jaunes et roses (1898)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Deux danseuses jaunes et roses (Two Dancers in Yellow and Pink) 1898 Pastel on paper, 106 x 108 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Degas alternated between working with oil painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.…

Arlequin danse (c.1890)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Arlequin danse (Harlequin dancing) c.1890 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 52 x 63 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In the mid-1880s, Edgar Degas produced a set of seven pastels and a sculpture dedicated to…

La danseuse (1874)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La danseuse (The Dancer) 1874 Oil on canvas, 142.5 x 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Dancer was one of seven works that Renoir included in the first exhibition of the Société anonyme coopérative des…

La répétition (c.1873-1878)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La répétition (The Rehearsal) c.1873–1878 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 61.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of Degas’s earliest paintings of dancers, a subject which he depicted in many media throughout his career. A close…

La classe de danse (1874)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…

La classe de danse (1873-1876)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1873–1876 Oil on canvas, 85.5 x 75 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor…

Ballerina (c.1927)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Ballerina c.1927 Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1920 Matisse became acquainted with 19-year-old Henriette Darricarrère, who became his model for the next seven years. The girl was a ballet dancer at the…