Edgar DegasFrench, 1834–1917Three Russian Dancers
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Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Degas has used pastels to capture the movements of three Russian dancers in a landscape. They are probably doing a gopak – a traditional Russian-Ukrainian Cossack dance. Russian folklore and culture were fashionable in Paris at the turn of the 19th century. Degas painted a series of pastels of Russian folk dancers. The models are believed to be from one of the many touring folk dance groups that performed at cabarets and vaudevilles in Montmartre where Degas lived.
Nationalmuseum
Particulars
In the catalog
Sources
- Nationalmuseum
- Image: Nationalmuseum — Public Domain Mark 1.0
