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Title: The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1874. Medium: Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with traces of watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing on cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas. Dimensions: 21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in. (54.3 x 73 cm)
- Edgar Degas | The Dance Class | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The imaginary scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old...
- Edgar Degas | The Rehearsal Onstage | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: The Rehearsal Onstage. Artist: Edgar Degas (French,...
- Edgar Degas | The Dance Class | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct 14, 2023 · The painting uncovers a number of ballerinas rehearsing for the recital. A multitude of these figure jump onto one another as one large array of characters. The viewer's focus does not fall towards one particular individual, and rather towards the piece as a whole.
Jun 1, 2011 · ‘The Rehearsal’ was created in c.1878 by Edgar Degas in Impressionism style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
The Rehearsal is one of many compositions devoted to the dance that the artist produced in the 1870s, apparently fascinated with the mechanization of the human body that the rigorous discipline...
Gallery Text. This is one of Degas’s earliest paintings of dancers, a subject which he depicted in many media throughout his career. A close look at this canvas reveals a grid underneath the paint layer that he used as part of the preparatory process to record preliminary ideas.
Title: The Rehearsal Onstage. Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1874. Medium: Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on thin cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas. Dimensions: 21 x 28 1/2 in. (53.3 x 72.4 cm) Classification: Drawings.
The Rehearsal is one of Degas' first paintings of the ballet, a subject he continued to paint for the rest of his life. In 1888 Vincent van Gogh's brother Theo bought this work from fellow dealer Georges Petit for 5,220 French francs.
