The Dance Class is an oil on canvas work (32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm)) painted by Edgar Degas in 1874, and is one of his most famous works featuring ballet dancers.

Edgar Degas was tired of picturing dancers. For two decades he had sketched performers all over the Paris Opera Ballet, from classroom to staircase to wings.

Edgar Degas: Lord of the dance As the Royal Academy celebrates Degas's paintings of ballerinas, Adrian Hamilton considers an astonishing life devoted to studying the human form ...

As she channels the artist Edgar Degas's most famous ballet works ahead of a new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, dancer Misty Copeland opens up about what it feels like to make history.

Degas’s pictures remain beloved by dancers: from students who hang prints of The Dance Class (1874) on their bedroom walls to stars such as Misty Copeland, who re-enacted Degas’s The Star ...

In an unforgettable new show, Manet and Degas are much more than rivals Two artists who pushed art into the modern age combine for a haunted love story at the Met ...

What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas Wikimedia Commons “Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian ...