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            Detail from: ‘The Dance Class’  Edgar Degas  1874
Oil on canvas
Signed (lover left): Degas

When Degas painted this work and variant ( Musee d’ Orsay, Paris), they constituted his most ambitious figural compostion aside from history paintings.  About twenty-four women  - ballerinas and their mothers -  wait while a dancer executes an attitude for her examination .  Jules Perrot, among the best known dancers and ballet masters in Europe, conducts the class.   The scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old Paris Opera-
A poster for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell is on the wall beside the mirror – even though the building has just burned down.
The work was commissioned in 1872 as part of an arrangement between Degas and the singer and collector Jean-Baptiste Faure.  It was one of only a few commissions the artist ever accepted; the painting was delivered in November of 1874 after two years of intermittent work.

Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986
1987.47.1


   

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Taken on: November 6, 2009

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Bench_167 « less

Sets appears in: • The Art of Edgar Degas • Bench_167 The MET more » • View from the Bench The MET • Metropolitan Museum sans benches « less

Camera: Sony DSC-W150, f/4.0, 1/8 sec, 9.9mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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Focal Length:	9.9mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	+0.7 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
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