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“The Dancers and Degas” is made possible by the Alan & Nancy Baer Foundation and the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
We'd like to thank Tom Gold of the New York City Ballet, Faith Score of the School of American Ballet, Felicia Blum, museum educator, and Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Curator in Charge of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, for their enthusiastic participation in this project. Joseph Guttridge and Catherine Romano of the New York City
Ballet, and Amy Bordy of the School of American Ballet generously contributed the ballet photographs.
Teresa M. Russo
Museum Educator
Felicia Blum
Associate Museum Educator
Sung Kevin Park
Teresa M. Russo
Barbara Woods
Felicia Blum
Edith Watts
Phoebe Ford
Dan Shields
Faith Hutchinson
Kathryn Calley Galitz
Assistant Curator
Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art
Emily Nemens
Lasley Steever
Faith Hutchinson
“A Day with Degas” gallery photographs by Jackie Neale Chadwick.
Object and gallery photographs by the Photography Studio,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photographs of the New York City Ballet by Paul Kolnik.
Photographs of the School of American Ballet by Ellen Crane.
Kathryn Calley Galitz
Mikel Frank
Stephen Rotker
Felix Cotto
Ariel Algus
Elizabeth Bell
Paul Caro
Morgan Holzer
Matt Morgan
Jonathan Munar
Lasley Steever
Osamu Takahashi
Eileen Willis
Tonia Payne
Honor Campbell
Bridget Robinson
Morgan Robinson
Charlotte Watts
Lila Watts
We would like to thank Catherine Romano and Joseph Gutteridge of the New York City Ballet
and Amy Bordy of the School of American Ballet for providing
us with photographs that illustrate the instruction
and perfomance of ballet.
Excerpts from Sleeping Beauty (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1895),
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan; The Nutcracker (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1895),
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti; Swan Lake (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1895),
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti; La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli, 1834–1886), National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted
by Bruno Bartoletti; Coppélia (Léo Delibes, 1836–1891), L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted
by Richard Bonynge; from the CD "Music from the Ballet," © 1998
Polygram Records, Inc., © 1998
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Self-portrait, possibly 1854
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas; 16 x 13 1/2 in. (40.6 x 34.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.6)
The Dancing Class, probably 1871
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on wood; 7 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (19.7 x 27 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.184)
The Dance Class, probably 1874
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas; 32 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (83.2 x 76.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986 (1987.47.1)
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, probably 1874
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with traces of watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing on cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas; 21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in. (54.3 x 73 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 (29.160.26)
Dancers Practicing at the Bar, 1877
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Mixed media on canvas; 29 3/4 x 32 in. (75.6 x 81.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.34)
A Day with Degas
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, 19th–20th century (executed ca. 1880; cast in 1922)
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917); Cast by A. A. Hébrard
French (Paris); Made in Paris, France
Bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair-ribbon; wood base; H. (w/out base) 39 in. (99.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.370)
Spanish Dance, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1884
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Bronze, number 45/A; 17 x 8 3/8 x 6 in. (43.2 x 22.2 x 15.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.395)
Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled after 1878
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Bronze, number 49/A; 8 5/8 x 10 7/8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 27.6 x 12.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.428)
First Arabesque Penchée, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably before ca. 1890
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Bronze, number 2/A; 10 7/8 x 16 5/8 x 8 in. (27.6 x 42.2 x 20.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.398)
Dressed Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg
Forward, cast in 1920 from a wax and cork sculpture modeled possibly ca. 1895 or later
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Bronze, number 51/A; 16 7/8 x 8 3/4 x 10 in. (42.9 x 22.2 x 25.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.392)
Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot, cast in 1920 from a plaster cast of ca. 1900
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Bronze, number 40/A; 18 1/4 x 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (46.4 x 24.4 x 17.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.377)
Two Dancers, ca. 1879
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Charcoal and white chalk on green commerically coated wove papper; 25 1/8 x 19 1/4 in. (63.8 x 48.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.189)
Portrait of the Artist, 1878
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Gouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored wood-pulp paper; 23 5/8 x 16 3/16 in. (60.1 x 41.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975 (1975.319.1)
Discover the Met
Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944
Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia, 1904–1948)
Oil on canvas; 42 1/4 x 48 3/4 in. (107.3 x 123.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
George A. Hearn Fund, 1956 (56.205.1)
Noh robe (nuihaku), Edo period (1615–1868), second half of 18th century
Japanese
Silk embroidery and gold leaf on satin; H. 61 1/4 in. (155.6 cm), W. at sleeves 56 in. (142.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mr. and Mrs. S. Morris Nomura, 1989 (1989.367)
The Temple of Dendur, Roman period, ca. 15 B.C.
Egyptian; Dendur, Nubia
Sandstone; L. from gate to rear of temple 82 ft. (24 m 60 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967, and installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978 (68.154)
The Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 1818–19
John Vanderlyn, American, 1775–1852
Oil on canvas; 12 x 165 ft. (3.6 x 49.5 m)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of the Senate House Association, Kingston, N.Y., 1952 (52.184)
Living Room from the Francis W. Little House, 1912–14
Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Emily Crane Chadbourne Bequest, 1972 (1972.60.1)
A Day with Degas
Henri Rouart in Front of His Factory, ca. 1875
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas; 25 13/16 x 19 7/8 in.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family (69.44)
Louis XIV en Soleil dans Le Ballet de la Nuit, Bibliothèque nationale de France
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