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Edgar Degas

The Dance Class

1874
Oil on canvas
83.5 × 77.2 cm (32.9 × 30.4 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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jim zaslaw · 5d

Degas dancers always draw me in. They create such a realistic and romantics notion of the moment captured.

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