Dance in Art · 1899

Dancer in Ukrainian Dress MET 77I 052R2M

Edgar Degas

Medium:

Drawing

Dance:

Ballet

Era:

Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)

Source:

Wikimedia Commons

Rights:

CC0

Dancer in Ukrainian Dress MET 77I 052R2M, by Edgar Degas, is a public-domain drawing 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.