Degas ballet rehearsal on stage
Degas ballet rehearsal on stage
Ballet rehearsal painting.
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
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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)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929
Object Number:29.160.26
The Painting: This very unusual mixed-media picture shows a rehearsal for a ballet.
Edgar degas ballet rehearsal on stage
The view is from a slightly elevated point above the orchestra pit; the scrolls of two double basses are just visible in the foreground, radically cropped at the bottom of the canvas. At left dancers wait in the wings, while other dancers rehearse at center stage.
The ballet master in a black suit at midgroun