Art, literature & history
Dancers in the Wings
1879/1880
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 13.9 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.) sheet: 30.5 × 21.8 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.3365
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edgar Degas. Dancers in the Wings. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Dancers in the Wings — Edgar Degas. 1879/1880.
Medium: etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13.9 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.) sheet: 30.5 × 21.8 cm (12 × 8 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.3365. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.