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Three Russian Dancers
Degas has used pastels to capture the movements of three Russian dancers in a landscape. They are probably doing a gopak – a traditional Russian-Ukrainian Cossack dance. Russian folklore and culture were fashionable in Paris at the turn of the 19th century. Degas painted a series of pastels of Russian folk dancers. The models are believed to be from one of the many touring folk dance groups that p…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
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Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Purchased 1916
Identifier
- NMB 380
- 24322
Extent
- Mått 62 x 67 cm
Format
- Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:38.901Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:27:12.516Z