The Dance Class — Edgar Degas
The Dance Class — Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas, 1874. Degas, 1874. Not the performance — the waiting. Girls scratching their backs, adjusting an earring, staring at nothing, while the old ballet master leans on his stick.
What arrives
- Printed on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.
- Made to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.
- Three sizes, from a piece that suits a hallway to one that takes a wall.
About the image
- Reproduced from the museum's own high-resolution scan of the original painting — not a photograph of a poster.
- Original held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986
- Public domain. Free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.
Good to know
Screens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read slightly deeper and softer on the wall than they do here — that is true of every print ever sold, and it is usually an improvement. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting sits at an unusual proportion — taller than it is wide by an awkward margin — so roughly 8% is trimmed from the long edge to meet the frame. Nothing central is lost.
Finish the wall
Two Degas rehearsal rooms and a Rembrandt study. They share the same proportions, so they take the same frame size and hang in a clean row.
