The Dance Class

La Classe de ballet

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas · 1874

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

About this painting

Roughly two dozen dancers and mothers crowd this rehearsal room while one girl performs an 'attitude' for her exam — Degas's most ambitious ballet composition.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

83 × 77 cm (32.7 × 30.3 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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