Dancers practicing at the barre

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1877

Height:

75.6 cm  (29 3/4 in.)

Width:

81.3 cm  (32 in.)

Technique / Medium:

mixed media on canvas

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

School:

Impressionism

Description

Canvas depicting two young female ballet dancers, practicing at the barre.

RIdIM images

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: 978-0300203615.

Keller, Horst. Edgar Degas (Munich: Bruckmann, 1988) ISBN: 978-3765421792.

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: 978-0520056046.

DeVonyar, Jill and Richard Kendall. Degas and the dance (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002) ISBN: 978-1885444264.

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.

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

Sparti, Barbara, Judy Van Zile, et al. Imaging dance: Visual representations of dancers and dancing (Hildesheim: Olms, 2011) ISBN: 978-3487145495.

Fischer, Miriam. Denken in Körpern: Grundlegung einer Philosophie des Tanzes (Freiburg i.Br: Verlag Karl Alber, 2010) ISBN: 978-3495484029.

Rathbone, Eliza and Elizabeth Steele. Degas's dancers at the barre: Point and counterpoint (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011) ISBN: 978-0300176322.

Notes

The public image is part of the donation by the Performing Arts Index (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) to Association RIdIM.

RIdIM record id

4979

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