Dancers Onstage

Dancers Onstage (French - Danseuses sur la scène) is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Theme

Degas is the painter of dancers because of the large number of works he devoted to this subject during the period 1860–1890.^[1]

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Paintings	The Bellelli Family (1858–1867) Young Spartans Exercising (1860) The Collector of Prints (1866) Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey (1866) Interior (1868–69) At the Races in the Countryside (1869) The Dancing Class (1870) The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870) Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (1871) A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873) The Dance Class (1874) The Ballet Class (1874) Ballerina Posing for a Photographer (1875) Place de la Concorde (1875) L'Absinthe (1876) The Dance Lesson (1879) Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) Portraits at the Stock Exchange (1879) The Millinery Shop (1879–1886) Before the Race (1882–1884) Dancers Onstage (1889)
Pastels	Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs (1877) Les Choristes (1877) Singer with a Glove (1878) Waiting (1880–1882) Young Woman in Blue (1884) The Tub (1886) Woman in a Tub (1886) After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (1890–1895) Blue Dancers (1897) Ukrainian dancers (1890s series)
Sculptures	Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881)
Models	Marie van Goethem
Related	The Impressionists (2006 series) The Line (2009 play) Little Dancer (2014 musical)