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Degas: Movement, Observation, and Modern Life
The Dance Class
Gallery 815 · Edgar Degas · 1874 · Met web page
Degas's most ambitious dance painting, featuring twenty-four ballerinas and their mothers waiting for an examination with the famous ballet master Jules Perrot.
Entrance → Gallery 815
To The Dance Class
From the Great Hall, take the escalator to Floor 2. Walk through galleries 200, 690, 850, and 800 to reach gallery 809, then continue to gallery 810 and finally gallery 815 in the European Paintings section.