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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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