Degas is best known for his depictions of theatre scenes. He recorded the swift movements and colourful costumes in numerous chalk drawings and pastels. Girls in the ballet studio and in the wings were among his favourite subjects. Around 1880 he began to model in clay. As he said himself, 'modelling is a way of thinking, just like sketching'.
Specifications
| Title | Two Ballet Dancers at the Barre |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Brush in brown and grey ink, heightened with white, on reddish tinted paper |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is travelling |
| Dimensions |
Width 283 mm Height 223 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Edgar Degas
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| Accession number | F II 54 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1872 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
Impressionisme: Een schone kijk (1992) De Collectie Twee - wissel I, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) |
| External exhibitions |
Vive l' impressionisme! Topstukken uit Nederlandse collecties. (2024) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Edgar Degas
Parijs 1834 - Parijs 1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1855. He took a number of study trips to Italy and initially painted mainly...
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