print email comment close Edgar Degas: The Dance Lesson URL: http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/degas/ Description: This illustrated essay focuses on French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas' painting "The Dance Lesson" (1878), which was "the first of more than forty paintings and pastels Degas made of dancers in the same compressed rehearsal space." Includes images of some of Degas' other dance-themed paintings, pastels, monotype prints, and wax sculptures. From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Publisher: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Extra Keywords ballet ballerina LII Database Information: Record 24102 created by Jennifer English on 07/06/2007 Last modification on 07/12/2007 Published: 07/12/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24102