Famous blue ballerina artist

Edgar Degas created Dance Class and Ballet Class in 1874.

They are two near-identical paintings, with the former now stored at the Met Museum in New York and the latter in Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

These were Degas' most complex paintings from his dance theme.

Famous blue ballerina artist

There are more than twenty figures in both, leaving a dance conductor to take the main focus of each work.

Jules Perrot is the conductor found here, and he was a famous ballet master around this time. Artist Degas created a scene within a rehearsal room in the former Paris Opera.

The only real difference between these two artworks are elements of the background, underlining how Edgar would play around with his scene to great detail.

This painting was lent to the 1876 Impressionist exhibition by Jean-Baptiste Faure, who commissioned the picture.

Faure was a famous singer who is featured in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell poster