The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas, 1874
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm, 70 × 100 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
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About the work
- Artist
- Edgar Degas
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, executed in grisaille
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, París
- Print up to
- 70 × 100 cm
- Reference
- XDV-1055
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Notice the total absence of color: everything here is grey, ochre, bone-white, like a memory rather than a live scene. In a way, it is one. By the time Degas finished this ballet rehearsal, the theatre he was painting—the Paris Opéra on Rue Le Peletier—no longer existed. It had burned down in late 1873. So these dancers stretch, yawn, repeat their steps under the raking footlight glow inside a building that was already gone, rebuilt from memory in grisaille. The monochrome isn't just a technical exercise—it's the exact color of something that can no longer be seen. Did you know the theatre vanished before the painting was even finished?
