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Dancing Class Degas’ meticulous draftsmanship underlies this crisply painted image, the artist’s first painting of dancers in rehearsal. Degas applied oil on panel, using exacting brushwork to create a smooth, almost lustrous surface. Smaller than a sheet of notebook paper, The Dancing Class is jewellike in both its size and highly finished surface. It has the linear qualities of traditional eighteenth-century French painting as well as the subtle illumination of seventeenth-century Dutch genre works. |
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