17 SEPTEMBER
/
11 DECEMBER
2011

DEGAS AND THE BALLET:
PICTURING MOVEMENT

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON

The Rehearsal

Edgar Degas, c. 1874

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Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 83.8 cm
Lent by Culture and Sport Glasgow on behalf of Glasgow City Council.
Gifted by Sir William and Lady Constance Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944.
Image © Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums)

Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera 'Robert le Diable'

Edgar Degas, 1876

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Oil on canvas, 76.6 x 81.3 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Image © V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen

Edgar Degas, 1880-1, cast c. 1922

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Painted bronze with muslin and silk, 98.4 x 36.5 cm
Tate. Purchased with assistance from The Art Fund 1952
Image © Tate, London, 2010

The Dance Lesson

Edgar Degas, c. 1879

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Oil on canvas, 38 x 88 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.6
Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Dancer (Préparation en dedans)

Edgar Degas, c. 1880-85

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Charcoal with stumping on buff paper, 336 x 227 mm
Trinity House, London and New York

Dancers

Edgar Degas, c. 1899

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Pastel on tracing paper laid down on board, 588 x 463 mm
Princeton University Art Museum. Bequest of Henry K. Dick, Class of 1909.
Image Bruce M. White

Dancer Adjusting her Strap

Edgar Degas, c. 1895-6

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Gelatin silver print from a glass collodion plate, 180 x 130 mm
© Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris / Department of Prints and Photographs