Edgar Degas - The Dance Lesson 1879

The Dance Lesson 1879
The Dance Lesson
1879 65x56cm pastel and black chalk
on three pieces of wove paper, joined together
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
Degas made various adjustments to this composition, presumably to accommodate the violinist in his final design. He added strips of paper at the top and to the right, and there is evidence to suggest that he may have altered the dancer's pose. A pastel study for the musician is in the Museum's collection (19.51.1). The present work was formerly owned by Gustave Caillebotte, who probably bought it from or soon after the Impressionist exhibition of 1879. In 1894 he bequeathed it to Renoir, who sold it shortly thereafter.
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