Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Edgar Degas

1877 · Mixed media on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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About this work

Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Year: 1877
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Original size: 75.6 × 81.3 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Impressionism

Two dancers in white tutus stretch at the barre in a rehearsal room, one leg raised each, with a greenish wall behind them and a watering can on the bare floorboards at the left. The can was standard equipment, used to damp the floor so the dust would not rise, and Degas turned it into a visual joke: its silhouette echoes the dancer on the right. He painted the picture in 1877 in a mix of media on canvas and showed it that year at the third Impressionist exhibition. He then gave it to his friend the collector Henri Rouart to replace an earlier work he had borrowed back, altered and accidentally destroyed. When Rouart's collection was sold in 1912, Louisine Havemeyer paid 95,700 dollars for it, then a record for a living artist. It came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her bequest in 1929.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Dancers Practicing at the Barre in the public domain?

Yes. Edgar Degas (1834–1917) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Dancers Practicing at the Barre painted, and in what medium?

Dancers Practicing at the Barre dates from 1877 and was made in mixed media on canvas; the original measures 75.6 × 81.3 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Edgar Degas's Dancers Practicing at the Barre — two dancers stretching at the barre on an empty rehearsal-room floor, a watering can at their feet — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Impressionism and The Ballet, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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