The Dance Lesson
Edgar Degas · ca. 1879 · Pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper, joined together
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About this picture
The Dance Lesson is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated ca. 1879. Pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper, joined together. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Dance Lesson” (ca. 1879) 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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