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Edgar Degas, The Dance Lesson, c. 1879, oil on canvas,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Mellon 1995.47.6 |
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Edgar Degas,
Before the Ballet, 1890/1892, oil on canvas, National Gallery
of Art, Washington, Widener Collection 1942.9.19 |
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Edgar Degas,
Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Base (Danseuses au foyer),
c. 1885, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of
Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, The H. O. Havemeyer Collection (29.100.127),
© 1980, The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Edgar Degas,
Ballet Rehearsal (La salle de danse), c. 1885, oil on canvas,
Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Duncan Phillips, B.A., 1908
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The
Dance Lesson is the first of more than forty paintings and pastels Degas
made of dancers in the same compressed rehearsal space. For twenty years,
he returned to this horizontal format, positioning and repositioning the
dancers and making slight alternations in the room’s configuration.
 
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