The dance lesson

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1879

Height:

64.5 cm  (25 3/8 in.)

Width:

56.2 cm  (22 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper, joined together

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

School:

Impressionism

Description

A dancer in ballet costume practices at the barre while a man plays violin.

Iconclass

48CC841
training ~ ballet - CC - female

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Stein, Susan Alyson (1997). The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art). ISBN: 978-0300203615.

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

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

Lipton, Eunice (1986). Looking into Degas
uneasy images of women and modern life (Berkeley, Los Angeles etc.: University of California Press). ISBN: 978-0520056046.

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

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

Wick, Peter A. (1959). "Degas' Violinist". In: Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 57, no. 310, pp. 87-101.

Tenneriello, Susan (2015). "Behind the Scenes: Art Work and the Laboring Body in the Dance Images of Degas". In: Dance Chronicle, vol 38, no. 1, pp. 27-54.

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

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

RIdIM record id

4981