Impressionism, Iron Architecture ·
chronological order 9
Pastel on card, about 65 × 65 cm, made by Edgar Degas around 1899, one
of his last works on the subject that held him all his life: the dancers
of the Paris Opera. Four figures overlap as they turn in the moment
before going on stage, no face clearly readable, in a cropped frame
against a strong yellow ground. Degas, nearly blind by then, worked in
layers of pastel pressed with steam to fix them. It is in the Pushkin
Museum in Moscow.
