Print Edgar Degas - The Dance Class, between 1873 and 1876 - 24x30cm

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
The Dance Class (detail), between 1873 and 1876.
Oil on canvas. H. 85,5 ; L. 75,0 cm.
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911.
Paris, musée d'Orsay.
© Photo Rmn - Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / A. Didierjean.
© Rmn - Grand Palais, Paris 2023.

Degas regularly went to the Paris opera...

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
The Dance Class (detail), between 1873 and 1876.
Oil on canvas. H. 85,5 ; L. 75,0 cm.
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911.
Paris, musée d'Orsay.
© Photo Rmn - Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / A. Didierjean.
© Rmn - Grand Palais, Paris 2023.

Degas regularly went to the Paris opera house, not only as a member of the audience, but as a visitor backstage and in the dance studio, where he introduced by a friend who played in the orchestra.
Degas closely observed the most spontaneous, natural, ordinary gestures, the pauses when concentration is relaxed and the body slumps after the exhausting effort of practising and the implacable rigour of the class.

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