Dancers

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1878

Height:

16.3 cm  (6 7/16 in.)

Width:

10.8 cm  (4 1/4 in.)

framed: 46.99 × 36.83 × 4.45 cm (18 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil paint with graphite underdrawing on manufactured card

Description

Central to this small drawing is a seated female figure, facing forward, in a red ballet costume; the back view of a male figure in performance attire is partially visible beside her.

Iconclass

48C8421
male dancer
48C8422
female dancer
48CC844
ballet dress - CC - female
48C8421(+17)
male dancer + professional clothes of artist

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Poggi, Christine, et al. French drawings: Acquisitions 1970–1984 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984) 86, no. 23.

Gross, Jennifer, ed. Edgar Degas: Defining the modernist edge (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003) 21–25, no. 5, pl. 5.

RIdIM record id

6214