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Two Dancers
This pastel shows two dancers preparing for their performance. Their gestures indicate that they are adjusting their earrings and coiffures. Degas has limited his palette to two colours: pink and blue-green. As so often in his work, he chose to focus on the dancers’ movements and poses – their bodies rather than the girls as individuals. This pastel is part of a series of pictures based on photogr…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Donated 1913 by Nationalmusei Vänner
Identifier
- NMB 345
- 24287
Extent
- Mått 63,5 x 53 cm
Format
- Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard. Sketching beneath in charcoal
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:38.461Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:27:12.009Z