Two Dancers
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
c. 1893–98
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal, with stumping and burnishing, on tracing paper, pieced and laid down on cardboard
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 70.5 × 53.6 cm (27 13/16 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Col. Robert R. McCormick to the Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Edgar Degas recorded ballet dancers at rest and in motion in a variety of media, producing numerous drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures. The subject enabled Degas to study the movement of the human form and the contortions of the body. In this pastel, the performers wait behind the curtains, in the wings of the stage, and bend at the waist, arms akimbo, in preparation for their next appearance.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
