On stage III
(Sur la scène III)
(1876-1877)
Medium
softground etching, drypoint and roulette
Measurements
9.7 × 12.4 cm (image) 10.0 × 12.7 cm (plate) 13.1 × 21.7 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Darcy Brennan Foundation, 2024
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Edgar Degas was one of only a few Impressionist painters to take a serious interest in the print medium. From the mid 1870s he was intensively engaged with printmaking and produced some of the most radically inventive etchings of the nineteenth century. On stage III depicts a ballet performance from the vantage point of the orchestra pit. This etching is closely related to Degas’ pastel-over-monotype Ballet at the Paris Opéra. It was created as a catalogue illustration for an 1877 exhibition organised by Les Amis des Arts de Pau in which Ballet at the Paris Opéra was displayed.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Welsh Reed & Shapiro 24V
Edition
5th of 5 states
Accession Number
2024.776
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings