Ballet at the Paris Opéra
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1877 · Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Ballet at the Paris Opéra is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated 1877. Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Ballet at the Paris Opéra” (1877) is cropped the way Degas liked: dancers, bathers, or a room seen as if glanced at, not arranged for a formal portrait.
About the artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist of dancers, bathers, races, and ordinary rooms. He drew constantly and often cropped a scene as if it had been glanced at, rather than posed for a formal portrait.
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