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The Dancing Class

Gallery 815 · Edgar Degas · ca. 1870 · Met web page

Degas's first depiction of a dance class, painted when he didn't yet have backstage access and had to work from models in his studio.

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The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas

Stay in gallery 815 and locate this small oil painting on wood.