Keywords: The Dance Lesson by Edgar Degas.jpg Artwork Creator Edgar Degas 1879 oil on canvas overall 38 x 88 cm 14 15/16 x 34 5/8 in framed 59 7 x 108 3 x 5 1 cm 23 1/2 x 42 5/8 x 2 in Institution National Gallery of Art place of discovery object history Durand-Ruel Paris ; sold to G G Keansward Jr Boston Rev George S Fiske Boston by 1927;1 Mrs Esther Fiske Hammond Santa Barbara by 1937 2 Mrs Alfred Chester Beatty née Edith Dunn Stone d 1952 London 3 Paul Rosenberg Co New York ; sold November 1957 to Mr Paul Mellon Upperville Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA 1 On loan from Fiske to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by 1927 2 Lent by Mrs Fiske Hammond to the 1937 Degas exhibition in Paris 3 According to Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son Oeuvre New York and London 1984 vol II no 625 exhibition history 1880 La 5me Exposition de Peinture Fifth Impressionist Exhibition Paris 1880 1937 Degas Musée de l'Orangerie Paris 1937 no 39 1966 French Paintings from the Collections of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon and Mrs Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art Washington 1966 no 55 repro 1984 Degas The Dancers National Gallery of Art 1984-1985 no 25 repro 1986 The New Painting Impressionism 1874-1886 National Gallery of Art Washington D C ; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco M H de Young Memorial Museum 1986 no 93 repro 1999 An Enduring Legacy Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon National Gallery of Art Washington D C 1999-2000 no cat 2000 Art for the Nation Collecting for a New Century National Gallery of Art Washington D C 2000-2001 unnumbered catalogue repro 2004 Degas Classico e moderno Degas Classical and Modern Complesso del Vittoriano Rome 2004-2005 no 43 repro 2011 Degas and the Ballet Picturing Movement Royal Academy of Arts London 2011 no 32 repro credit line Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon lower right Degas accession number 1995 47 6 place of creation NGA Images 1995 47 6 Assessments 1 The Dance Lesson PD-old-auto-1923 1917 Uploaded with UploadWizard French paintings in the National Gallery of Art Paintings by Edgar Degas |