# Ballet at the Paris Opéra, in Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas painted this in 1877, aged 43. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Ballerinas in tutus fill the stage of the Paris Opéra, watched from the darkened house. Degas began with a monotype, inking a plate and printing a single impression, and then worked over it in pastel, so that the dark printed base gives depth to the brilliant touches of colour on top.

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## The work

- Date: 1877
- Medium: Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: Plate: 35.2 × 70.6 cm (13 7/8 × 27 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 71.9 cm (14 3/16 × 28 5/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.12
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Edgar Degas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edgar-degas), French, 1834–1917

Degas trained in the academic tradition, admired Ingres and spent three years in Italy copying earlier art, but turned to modern Paris for his subjects: dancers, racecourses, laundresses, milliners and café singers.

15 works in the collection.

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