Vernissage
The Dance Lesson

Edgar Degas

French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris

The Dance Lesson, ca. 1879

Pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper, joined together

64.5 × 56.2 cm (25 ½ × 22 ¼ in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Adaline Havemeyer Perkins, in memory of her father, Horace Havemeyer, 1971

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