1879

Showing 2 artworks from 1879

Genre painting · Impressionism

The Rehearsal

Edgar Degas

1879 · The Frick Collection, New York City

Dancers stretch while a spiral staircase cuts the corner and the frame slices figures off. Degas cared about the practice, not the performance.

★ 6.1

Portrait · Impressionism

Portraits at the Stock Exchange

Edgar Degas

1879 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Degas turned from dancers to financiers, catching heads bent close over documents in the crush of the Paris exchange.

★ 5.2