Edgar Degas - Three Dancers Preparing for Class 1878

Three Dancers Preparing for Class 1878
Three Dancers Preparing for Class
1878 54x52cm pastel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
The seated dancer in this pastel was derived from a study dated December 1878 of the fifteen-year-old Melina Darde. That drawing and those which explored the poses of the two dancers in the foreground belonged to a stock of figure drawings that Degas used for his larger compositions. There is another variant of this pastel also of the mid-1880s (Private collection).