Three Dancers Preparing for Class, after 1878, Pastel on buff-colored wove paper, 21 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (54.6 x 52.1 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), The seated dancer in this pastel was derived from a study dated December 1878 of the fifteen-year-old Melina Darde. That drawing and those which explored the poses of the two dancers in the foreground belonged to a stock of figure drawings that Degas used for his larger compositions
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Three Dancers Preparing, Class, 1878, Pastel, buff-colored wove paper, 21 1/2 x 20 1/2, 54.6 52.1 cm, Drawings, Edgar Degas, French, Paris, 1834–1917, seated, dancer, pastel, derived, study dated, December, fifteen-year-old Melina, Darde, drawing, explored, poses, two dancers, foreground, stock, figure drawings, Degas, larger compositions
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