The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1874 and 1876 by the French artist Edgar Degas. [1] The painting depicts a group of ballet dancers at the end …

Dgas represented dancers in almost all mediums. His first known paintings, pastels, and drawings of dancers closely followed his two-dimensional works of horses in the 1860s.

Jan 6, 2021 · Degas made around 1,500 paintings, monotypes and drawings of ballet dancers, but they have a troubled history. Although it enjoyed unprecedented popularity in Degas’ era, the ballet – and...

The Ballet Class, oil painting created in 1871–74 by French artist Edgar Degas. This painting, one of two of the same scene, shows dancers waiting to be assessed by ballet master Jules Perrot.

This work and its variant in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to the theme of the dance. Some twenty-four women, ballerinas and their mothers, wait …

From the 1870s until his death, Degas's favourite subjects were ballerinas at work, in rehearsal or at rest, and he tirelessly explored the theme with many variations in posture and gesture....

From the 1870s until his death, Degas's favourite subjects were ballerinas at work, in rehearsal or at rest, and he tirelessly explored the theme with many variations in posture and gesture. More than the …

Sep 11, 2025 · Discover 10 Edgar Degas ballet paintings that capture dancers in rehearsal, performance, and stillness with vivid detail, emotion, and technical mastery.

From the 1860s onwards, Degas turned ballet dancers into one of the core focusses of his art. He ventured into the Paris Opéra, seeking out scenes from the stage, the corridors, the dance studios …

Degas painted The Ballet Class for the French opera singer and art collector Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914). It was completed two years after the Foyer de la Dance, and it shows Degas' evolution …