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Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877. Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper.
Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper · Plate: 35.2 × 70.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Ballet at the Paris Opéra
- Artist
- Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- Pastel over monotype on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 35.2 × 70.6 cm (13 7/8 × 27 13/16 in.); Sheet: 35.9 × 71.9 cm (14 3/16 × 28 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.