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Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

Edgar Degas · 1834–1917

Maximum print size

Frame
40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening
23.1 × 31.0 cm · 9.1 × 12.2 in
Mat border, sides
8.9 cm · 3.5 in
Mat border, top and bottom
9.9 cm · 3.9 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date
1873
Medium
Graphite heightened with black and white chalk on pink wove paper (now faded); squared for transfer
Type
Drawings
Size
33.0 × 24.4 cm · 13.0 × 9.6 in
Orientation
portrait
Subjects
Ballet, Dancers, Women
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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