![]() The ballet was a subject that occupied Degas’ interest for the next forty years until his death. These women were in a similar social position to Degas’ other subjects of urban labor: laundresses and prostitutes. In the late nineteenth century, ballet dancers were essentially urban workers they toiled away in practice rooms for countless hours at the expense of their bodies. Arguably Degas’ most famous subject is the Parisian Opéra and its ballet dancers.ĭegas began portraying the Opéra-its stage, practice rooms, and dressing rooms-and ballet dancers in the late 1860s in drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture. ![]() Glembin.Though many of his formal principles are similar, Edgar Degas (1834–1917) stands out from the other major Impressionists because of his decision to depict urban spaces and the people that inhabit them, rather than natural landscapes. Purchase, Bradley Conservation Endowment Fund M1984.70. ![]() Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917), Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand, ca. ![]()
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