Opera and ballet were a fashionable part of Parisian cultural life, and Degas was likely in the audience long before he began to paint the dancers. Indeed, some of his first dance paintings portray ...

'The ballet dancers were treated as a kind of game preserve': The Rehearsal Onstage by Edgar Degas (c 1874), on view at The Met, New York - Alamy ...

Plate size 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches 13 1/2 x 15 7/8 inches Signed, Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917). Danseuse (Ballerina Dancer). Hand Pulled Copper plate etching, printed in Green ink, on cream laid paper after ...