Three Dancers Preparing for Class
Edgar Degas
after 1878 · Pastel on buff-colored wove paper · European Paintings
The seated dancer in this pastel was derived from a study dated December 1878 of the fifteen-year-old Melina Darde. That drawing and those which explored the poses of the two dancers in the foreground belonged to a stock of figure drawings that Degas used for his larger compositions. There is another variant of this pastel in a private collection.
- Artist
- Edgar Degas
- Date
- after 1878
- Medium
- Pastel on buff-colored wove paper
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
