- Degas at the Opéra
- March 1 – July 5, 2020
- West Building, Ground Floor, Outer Tier

Edgar Degas,
An exuberant display of fecund imagination and keen observation, Edgar Degas’s renowned images of the Paris Opéra are among the most sophisticated and visually compelling works he ever created. Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Opéra’s founding, Degas at the Opéra will present approximately 100 of the artist’s best-known and beloved works in a range of media, including paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalog.
The Opéra also fueled some of Degas’s most daring technical innovations, including his first monotype,
The exhibition is curated by Degas expert Henri Loyrette with Kimberly A. Jones, curator of 19th-century French paintings, National Gallery of Art; Leïla Jarbouai, graphic arts curator, Musée d'Orsay; and Marine Kisiel, curator, Musée d'Orsay.
Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, Paris
Sponsors: BP America is proud to be a sponsor of this Washington, D.C. exhibition as part of its support for the arts in the U.S.
Adrienne Arsht also kindly provided a leadership gift for this exhibition
Additional funding is provided by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art
Passes: Admission is always free and passes are not required
Other venues: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 24, 2019–January 19, 2020
About the Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- French
- , 1834 - 1917
Related Art Objects
- Degas, Edgar, executed in collaboration with Vicomte Lepic
- Edgar Degas
- Vicomte Ludovic Napoléon Lepic
- The Ballet Master (Le maître de ballet)
- c. 1874