Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas / The Dance Class / probably 1874

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
The Dance Class
probably 1874
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Creator Name: Degas, Edgar Germain Hilaire
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: French, 1834-1917
Creator Name-CRT: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
Title: The Dance Class
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1874
Creation End Date: 1874
Creation Date: probably 1874
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (83.2 x 76.8 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1987.47.1
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

When Degas painted this work, he had already begun another version (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) that he intended for the 1874 Impressionist exhibition, but it was not shown. Once the present picture was completed and delivered to the collector Jean-Baptiste Faure, Degas returned to the first version and substantially revised it. Faure lent the present painting, Degas's most ambitious picture on a dance theme, to the 1876 Impressionist exhibition. Some twenty-one dancers and four of their mothers wait their turn to be evaluated by the ballet master Jules Perrot. Degas, who had never witnessed such an examination, prepared for the picture with countless drawings executed in his studio while dancers posed for him. Mary Cassatt often claimed that, in this painting, Degas surpassed Vermeer.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1987.47.1
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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