Where to See Dancer resting: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edgar Degas captured a dancer at rest, taking a break from practice. These moments of relaxation between efforts interested him as much as performance. The pose is natural and unguarded.

Degas showed the physical demands of ballet through such quiet scenes. This work is at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You can see it at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA. Edgar Degas created it. Edgar Degas captured a dancer at rest, taking a break from practice.

Edgar Degas created this image of a dancer taking a break You can see it at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Degas found resting dancers as striking as performing ones. The contrast between the demanding physicality of ballet and the exhausted relaxation between routines fascinated him throughout his career.

Dancer resting

Where to See It

The Artist

Cite or Embed This Work

More by Edgar Degas

Singer in Green

Madame Rene De Gas

Dancers Practicing at the Barre

Mademoiselle Malo

Also at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rolltop desk

Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment

Marble statue of a lion

Supper at Emmaus

Bowing Dancer

The Dance Class

Self-portrait

Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies

La Grenouillère

Olympia

The Fifer

The Cradle

The Child's Bath

The Old Musician

Water Lilies

Luncheon of the Boating Party

About Dancer resting

Own Art Like This