1895
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Danseuses sur la scène is a 1895 oil by Edgar Degas, a Impressionism work, held at Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
This painting is called Danseuses sur la scène. It's an oil paint work by Edgar Degas. The painting is from 1889 and is now held at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It's also known as Dancers Onstage, which gives us an idea of what the painting depicts. To learn more about the style and methods used in this work, you can look into the technique of glazing.
Dancers Onstage (French - Danseuses sur la scène) is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
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Degas is the painter of dancers because of the large number of works he devoted to this subject during the period 1860–1890. The influence of the Japanese prints by Hokusai and Utamaro allowed Degas, in a phenomenon linked as a whole to the impressionist movement, to free one of the last barriers of academic painting, the vision of the object. The liberated observation, the representation of the movement of the ballets allowed Degas to grasp everything that was unexpected in the fleeting aspect of this world. The painter seeks to render the most diverse forms and attitudes, under the effect…
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Born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas on 19 July 1834 in Paris, Edgar Degas came from an affluent banking family with aristocratic roots and spent his childhood among the cultivated circles of the French capital.
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