Ballet scene from Meyerbeer's opera Robert Le Diable

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1876
Height:
76.6 cm  (30 3/16 in.)
Width:
81.3 cm  (32 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
School:
Impressionism

    Item location

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: CAI.19]

Description

This scene features the ghosts of nuns who had offended heaven with their impure thoughts and a view from the orchestra pit depicting some bassonists. The foreground figures include Degas’ friends: the collector Albert Hecht, the bassoonist Désiré Diahu and the amateur painter Vicomte Lepic.

Iconclass

48C84
the ballet, ballet performance

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bassoon [3795]

Musical works

Meyerbeer, Giacomo -- Robert le diableillegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Includes other indeterminate instruments in the orchestra.

RIdIM record id

587