In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Drawing was essential to Degas's artistic practice. Here strong lines of charcoal with minimal additions of pastel define three dancers with overlapping arms and tutus. The radical cropping and clustering of the figures—only one face, in profile, is visible to the viewer—reveals Degas's photographic eye. Indeed, Degas owned a camera by the mid-1890s, but there is no evidence that he used photography in the making of this work.
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Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) — Dancers
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Ballet Dancers
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Pinning the Hat
Constantin Guys (French, 1805–1892) — In Expectation
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Constantin Guys — Women Dancing in a Brothel
Georges Rouault — Girl I–Rear View with Red Stockings (Fille
Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863–1916) — Le Ballet
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Conquête de passage
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — At the Cirque Fernando, Rider on
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
