Ballet dancer with arms crossed

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1872

Height:

61.3 cm  (24 1/8 in.)

Width:

50.5 cm  (19 7/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Description from museum website:
This somewhat introverted portrayal of a dancer was left unfinished in Degas’s studio at the time of his death. The bare preparation layer of her skirt and roughly sketched contours of her arms expose the artist’s process—laying in outlines first and then, working in sections, building half tones to model three-dimensional form. The resulting image is both strikingly modern and quite literally reserved: a work in progress.

Iconclass

48C8422
female dancer
48CC844
ballet dress - CC - female

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

5853