The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

Le Ballet de « Robert le Diable » (1871)

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

Edgar Degas · 1871

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

About this painting

Degas painted the opera's ghostly nun ballet from the audience's view, with a bored spectator's opera glasses aimed away from the stage entirely.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

66 × 54 cm (26 × 21.3 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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