# The Dance Class, in Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas painted this in 1874, aged 40. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Dancers stretch, wait and fidget while the veteran ballet master Jules Perrot, leaning on a tall staff, takes a class in a rehearsal room of the Paris Opéra. Degas pushes him off-centre and lets the eye drift through the room instead, to dancers stretching, resting or simply waiting their turn.

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## The work

- Date: 1874
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.47.1
- 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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