# Dancers, in Impressionism

Edgar Degas drew this in about 1896, aged about 57. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Degas depicted the ballet in more than 1,000 paintings, prints, pastels, and sculptures. He preferred private, offstage moments to glamorous curtain calls or artfully constructed compositions. Here, three dancers stretch together in the wings, unaware of the viewer’s presence.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1896
- Medium: pastel with charcoal on tracing paper mounted on paper and backed with gray board
- Dimensions: Sheet: 55.7 x 41.4 cm (21 15/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.1043
- 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.

## Walk on

- [More by Edgar Degas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/edgar-degas?hang=749) (15 works)
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