Study of a Nude (Dancer at the Barre)
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
This large-scale drawing dates to Degas’s late career when he made many variations of his compositions using charcoal on tracing paper. This figure of a dancer stretching over her leg on the barre appears in at least five other drawings, all of which relate to the painting "Dancers at the Barre" (early 1880s–ca.1900) in the Phillips Collection, Washington. Often Degas worked up these variants in pastel, though in this case he left the bold lines of charcoal bare, revealing his reworking of the form.
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