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The Dance Lesson

1879 painting by Edgar Degas
VisualArtwork painting Q15727864
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Summary

The Dance Lesson is a painting[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Edgar Degas[3]
  • Owned by: Edith Dunn Beatty[4], Paul Mellon[5]
  • Depicts: ballet dancer[6]
  • Made from material: oil paint[7], canvas[8]
  • Collection: National Gallery of Art[9]
  • Inventory number: 1995.47.6[10]
  • Location: National Gallery of Art[11]
  • Catalog code: 786[12], MS-234[13], 625[14]
  • Inception: 1879[15]
  • Title: The Dance Lesson[16]
  • Height: 33 cm[17]
  • Width: 88 cm[18]
  • Fabrication method: oil painting[19]
  • IIIF manifest URL: https://www.nga.gov/api/v1/iiif/presentation/manifest.json?cultObj:id=93045[20]
  • Copyright status: public domain[21]

Why It Matters

The Dance Lesson is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Edgar Degas National Gallery of Art public domain

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . nga.gov. nga.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . National Gallery of Art - Collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . National Gallery of Art - Collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . National Gallery of Art - Collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18d ago · Aulympe · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Height → {'unit': 'Q174728', 'amount': '+33'}
    Width → {'unit': 'Q174728', 'amount': '+88'}
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Depicts: ballet dancer"
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