DancersPracticingattheBarre_TheMET (4)

            ‘Dancers Practicing at the Barre’   Edgar Degas   1877

Mixed media on canvas 
Signed (left center): Degas

This painting appears to give a random glance through an open door into a dance studio, yet, as always with Degas, the compostion was meticulously worked out and the figures carefully rendered.  Degas created a witty analogy between the watering can ( used to wet down the dust on the studio floor)  and the dancer at the right: The handle on the side imitates the dancer’s left arm, the handle at the top mimics her head, and the spout approximates her right art and raised leg.  After the work was completed, Degas regretted the visual pun and asked the owner, his friend Henri Rouart, if he could take the picture back to rework it.  Rouart refused…

Bequest of  Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer , 1929 
29.100.34

From the placard: Metropolitan Musuem of Art.

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Taken on: November 6, 2009

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

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Focal Length:	5mm
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Exposure Bias:	+0.7 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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