Degas: The Dance Lesson, 11 x 14" Matted Print

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Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Degas's The Dance Lesson (1879) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.

Painted c. 1879, The Dance Lesson by Edgar Degas is the first ballet scene in a distinctive group of some forty pictures, all executed in an unusual horizontal format. Degas had already begun to experiment with this format in some of his racing scenes in order to create an almost panoramic sense of space. In the ballet scenes, the setting was transformed into an oblong rehearsal room populated by dancers in various states of activity and exhaustion. This format, which has been likened to a frieze, has a decidedly decorative quality. Degas' fascination with the unexpected views and flattened forms of Japanese prints is also apparent: figures are sharply cropped and placed off center, while the floor, which dominates the scene, seems tipped upward, an illusion that is accentuated by the elongated format.

Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Degas's The Dance Lesson (1879) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.

  • 4 x 10" (image), 11 x 14" (matted)
  • 12-color pigment ink with a permanence ration of 100 years
  • Unframed


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Painted c. 1879, The Dance Lesson by Edgar Degas is the first ballet scene in a distinctive group of some forty pictures, all executed in an unusual horizontal format. Degas had already begun to experiment with this format in some of his racing scenes in order to create an almost panoramic sense of space. In the ballet scenes, the setting was transformed into an oblong rehearsal room populated by dancers in various states of activity and exhaustion. This format, which has been likened to a frieze, has a decidedly decorative quality. Degas' fascination with the unexpected views and flattened forms of Japanese prints is also apparent: figures are sharply cropped and placed off center, while the floor, which dominates the scene, seems tipped upward, an illusion that is accentuated by the elongated format.

Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Degas's The Dance Lesson (1879) for your own gallery in this 11 x 14" print, matted with an eggshell-white mount.

  • 4 x 10" (image), 11 x 14" (matted)
  • 12-color pigment ink with a permanence ration of 100 years
  • Unframed


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