The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

ca. 1874

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: 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
Dimensions: 21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in. (54.3 x 73 cm)
Collection no.: 29.160.26
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Edgar Degas. The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage — Edgar Degas. ca. 1874.

Medium: 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. Dimensions: 21 3/8 x 28 3/4 in. (54.3 x 73 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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