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Plate I

The Dance Class
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The Dance Class

Edgar Degas, artist

One of Degas’s most ambitious ballet compositions, showing dancers and families around the ballet master Jules Perrot.

Date
1874
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reference
438817

Record

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)
Origin
France

Provenance and history

  1. 1874

    Created by Edgar DegasA

Sources

  1. A
  2. B

    collectionapi.metmuseum.org

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