Danseuses dans la coulisse (Dancers in the wings)

Edgar Degas

About 1877

  • Titles Danseuses dans la coulisse (Dancers in the wings) (Title)
  • Artist Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917
  • Medium etching, aquatint and drypoint
  • Dimensions sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (34.9 × 27.7 cm) plate: 5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in. (14 × 10.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Roy Curtis Green, AFI.171.2015
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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A man sits at a desk with an open book. He looks out at the viewer and points to a passage in the book. A small dog stands alert at his feet. Above him in the background, a swirl of figures resides including grotesque figures, animals, and humans.
View down the sidewalk of a street in London on a foggy day. On the left one can just see the buildings along the road. On the far right of the image a bus is visible. In the center of the image a spindly tree above which one can see the sun through the fog. A few pedestrians are walking on the sidewalk in both directions.
Scene of a street. On the left, a figure leads two donkeys that carry pottery on their backs. On the right, a hooded figure carries two pots. The upper portion of the street is lined with decrepit buildings on one side, and a cross on a pedestal is positioned in the center.
Scene of a group of jockeys riding horses. One horse and jockey fall on the ground on the right. In the middleground, more riders are seen in a vast, open landscape.