Two dancers in a rehearsal room

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1877–1878
Height:
24.0 cm  (9 7/16 in.)
Width:
20.5 cm  (8 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
Aquatint, drypoint, and scraping on laid paper; only state
Place of creation:
Paris (France)
School:
Impressionism

Description

Drawing depicting two young female ballet dancers.

RIdIM images


Black/white image, part of the donation by the Performing Arts Index (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) to Association RIdIM.

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Stein, Susan Alyson. The private collection of Edgar Degas (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) ISBN 9780300203615.

Keller, Horst. Edgar Degas (Munich: Bruckmann, 1988) ISBN 9783765421792.

Browse, Lillian. Degas dancers (New York: Studio Publications, 1949).

Lipton, Eunice. Looking into Degas: Uneasy images of women and modern life (Berkeley, Los Angeles etc.: University of California Press, 1986) ISBN 9780520056046.

DeVonyar, Jill and Richard Kendall. Degas and the dance (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002) ISBN 9781885444264.

Kendall, Richard and Jill DeVonyar. Degas and the ballet: Picturing movement (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011) ISBN 978-1905711680.

Wick, Peter A. "Degas' violinist", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 57/310 (1959) 87-101. JSTOR subscription access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4171313.

Tenneriello, Susan. "Behind the scenes: Art work and the laboring body in the dance images of Degas", Dance chronicle 38/1 (2015) 27-54. RILM 2015-7621.

Sparti, Barbara, Judy Van Zile, et al., eds. Imaging dance: Visual representations of dancers and dancing (Hildesheim: Olms, 2011) ISBN 9783487145495.

Fischer, Miriam. Denken in Körpern: Grundlegung einer Philosophie des Tanzes (Freiburg i.Br: Verlag Karl Alber, 2010) ISBN 9783495484029.

RIdIM record id

4977