Dance in Art

The Ballet Master

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917

Medium:

Watercolor and oil paint, with graphite and touches of pen and brown and black ink, on buff laid paper, ruled at center in charcoal, laid down on Japanese paper

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Source:

aic

Rights:

AIC — rights reserved

The Ballet Master, by Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917, is a public-domain watercolor and oil paint, with graphite and touches of pen and brown and black ink, on buff laid paper, ruled at center in charcoal, laid down on japanese paper in the LODance gallery of dance in art. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.