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The Dance Class

Date Painted:1874

Size:85 x 75 cm(33½ x 29½")

Materials: Oil on Canvas

Current Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

 

Dance Class At The Opera

Edgar Degas is known as an Impressionist painter. Impressionism started in France in the 1860s. Degas is best known for his pictures of ballet dancers, the romantic Paris night-life and horse racing scenes. He often used charcoal and coloured chalk to create his artworks. In his last years fading eyesight saw him painting less and turning more to sculpture and modelling.

 

It is estimated Degas made approximately 1500 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings of dancers.