Dance in Art · 1874

The Dance Class MET DT46

Edgar Degas

Medium:

Oil Painting

Dance:

Ballet

Era:

Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)

Source:

Wikimedia Commons

Rights:

CC0

The Dance Class MET DT46, by Edgar Degas, is a public-domain oil painting in the LODance gallery of dance in art, depicting ballet. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.