"Edgar Degas Edgar Degas ( or ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and"
"spontaneous and freely worked of the two, characteristic of ""en plein air"" work. Bal du moulin de la Galette Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and"
"Jean Babilée Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n); 3 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) was a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century. He is considered to have been one of modern ballet's greatest performers, and the first French dancer to gain international acclaim. Babilée has been called the """"enfant terrible"" of dance."" Born in Paris in 1923, the son of a doctor, Babilée studied at the Paris Opéra Ballet School from 1936 to 1940. His dance career was interrupted during World War II because he was Jewish on his father's side. He"
"The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt down the previous year. The poster on the wall for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell is a tribute to the operatic"
"Bal du moulin de la Galette Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening. Like other works of Renoir's early maturity, ""Bal"
"singer Jean-Baptiste Faure, who had commissioned the work. The picture is on view in the Met Museum's Gallery 815. The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt"
"Jean Dauberval Jean Dauberval, a.k.a. Jean D’Auberval, (born Jean Bercher in Montpellier, 19 August 1742 – Tours, 14 February 1806), was a French dancer and ballet master. He is most noted for creating the ballet, ""La fille mal gardée"", one of the most enduring and popular works of the ballet repertoire. Dauberval was trained at the school of the Paris Opéra where he studied under the great Jean-Georges Noverre. He was appointed ""premier danseur"" of the ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique in 1763, and, in 1771, he was named ballet master. From 1781 until 1783, he was engaged"
"Antoine Pitrot Antoine-Bonaventure Pitrot (31 March 1727 in Marseille – after 1792), known as Pitrot aîné (""Pitrot the elder""), was a French dancer, choreographer and ballet master. He was the elder brother of Jean-Baptiste Pitrot, and their father Barthélemy Pitrot was an actor who criss-crossed the French provinces in the first half of the 18th century. Antoine Pitrot began his career at the Opéra de Paris in 1744 and then as ballet-master at the Théâtre-Italien. He pursued a brilliant career, appearing across Europe and even in Russia, and composed several ballets. He is considered as one of the precursors of"
"Paris's 'ballet d'action'. Antoine Pitrot Antoine-Bonaventure Pitrot (31 March 1727 in Marseille – after 1792), known as Pitrot aîné (""Pitrot the elder""), was a French dancer, choreographer and ballet master. He was the elder brother of Jean-Baptiste Pitrot, and their father Barthélemy Pitrot was an actor who criss-crossed the French provinces in the first half of the 18th century. Antoine Pitrot began his career at the Opéra de Paris in 1744 and then as ballet-master at the Théâtre-Italien. He pursued a brilliant career, appearing across Europe and even in Russia, and composed several ballets. He is considered as one of"
"French ballet In the French courts during the 17th Century, ballet first begins to flourish with the help of several important men: King Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pierre Beauchamps, and Molière. The combination of different talents and passions of these four men shaped ballet to what it is today. Louis XIV, the King of France from 1643 to 1715, was a ballet enthusiast from a young age. In fact his birth was celebrated with the ""Ballet de la Felicite"" in 1639. As a young boy, he was strongly supported and encouraged by the court, particularly by Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, to"
"Henri Lucien Doucet Henri Lucien Doucet (23 August 1856 – 31 December 1895) was a French figure and portrait painter and pastellist, born in Paris. Doucet studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. In 1888, he taught at Académie Julian His pictures are usually piquant, sparkling representations of modern life, eminently Parisian in style, but the audacious realism of his earlier work is not maintained in his later, which is somewhat characterless. His portraits in pastel are also notable. His most widely known picture is ""Après le bal"" (""After the Ball"", 1889). Other excellent"
"to a more classical style of painting he learned copying paintings in the Louvre while maintaining the bright palette of his fellow Impressionists. Dance at Bougival Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It has been described as ""one of the museum's most beloved works"". The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote. The setting is the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris. Many Impressionists"
"and actors, these three giants of men worked together to create many beautiful pieces of art for King Louis XIV. French ballet In the French courts during the 17th Century, ballet first begins to flourish with the help of several important men: King Louis XIV, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pierre Beauchamps, and Molière. The combination of different talents and passions of these four men shaped ballet to what it is today. Louis XIV, the King of France from 1643 to 1715, was a ballet enthusiast from a young age. In fact his birth was celebrated with the ""Ballet de la Felicite"" in"
"Serge Lifar Serge Lifar (, ""Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar""; , ""Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar"") (, Kiev, Russian Empire15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Not only a dancer, Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector. As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944, and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet, returning it to its place as one of the best"
"of the painting. Doucet's students included: Henri Lucien Doucet Henri Lucien Doucet (23 August 1856 – 31 December 1895) was a French figure and portrait painter and pastellist, born in Paris. Doucet studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. In 1888, he taught at Académie Julian His pictures are usually piquant, sparkling representations of modern life, eminently Parisian in style, but the audacious realism of his earlier work is not maintained in his later, which is somewhat characterless. His portraits in pastel are also notable. His most widely known picture is ""Après le bal"""
"At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted in 1890, and is the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889. It portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle of the crowded dance hall. A recently discovered inscription by Toulouse-Lautrec on the back of the painting reads: ""The instruction of the new ones by Valentine the Boneless."" This means that the man to the left of the woman dancing, is"
"in July 1850. Germain Quériau Pierre-Angélique-Germain Quériau was a French dancer and choreographer in the first half of the 19th century, born c. 1790 and died in Montmartre 14 July 1850. A dancer in Naples from 1813 to 1815, then principal dancer in Lyon from 1820 to 1824 Quériau became ballet master at the theatre of Marseille from 1826 to 1829 where he had ""L'Apothéose d'Hercule"", ""Énée ou le Triomphe de Vénus"" and ""Romulus"" staged and printed. From 1830 to 1831, he headed the ballets of Lyon where he performed ""Napoléon en Égypte"" and ""Le Flageolet magique"", ballets which would"
"Jean-Georges Noverre Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ""ballet d'action"", a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day. His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. In 1747 he moved to Strasbourg, where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, ""Les Fêtes"
"Perrot died on holiday in Paramé 29 August 1892. Jules Perrot Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Beat Boxer of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including ""Pas de Quatre"", ""La Esmeralda"", ""Ondine"", and ""Giselle"" with Jean Coralli. The Lyon-born Perrot danced often with Marie Taglioni but their partnership was short-lived. She eventually refused to dance with him fearing that he would outshine her. He left the Opéra in 1835 to tour European dance centers such"
"Louis Mérante Louis Alexandre Mérante (23 July 1828–Courbevoie, 17 July 1887) was a dancer and choreographer, the ""Maître de Ballet"" (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier until its destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master at the company's new Palais Garnier, which opened in 1875. He is best remembered as the choreographer of Léo Delibes' ""Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane"" (1876). With Arthur Saint-Léon and Jules Perrot, he is one of the three choreographers who defined the French ballet tradition during the Second French Empire and the Third"
"Jean-Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of ""fêtes galantes"", scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet. Watteau"
"Françoise Adret Françoise Adret (7 August 1920 – 1 April 2018) was a French ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and company director. Her professional career, international in scope, albeit centered in France, spanned more than sixty years. She was recognized as one of the most innovative creators of contemporary dance in western Europe. Born in Versailles, Adret began her dance training at an early age. In the 1930s she studied with the leading Franco-Russian teachers in Paris, including Victor Gsovsky and Serge Lifar. In the late 1940s, following World War II, she had a modest career with the Paris Opera Ballet,"
"ballet dancer and arrived to Russia in 1823 with his niece (or sister) and her husband Fernando Sor. Louis Mérante Louis Alexandre Mérante (23 July 1828–Courbevoie, 17 July 1887) was a dancer and choreographer, the ""Maître de Ballet"" (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier until its destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master at the company's new Palais Garnier, which opened in 1875. He is best remembered as the choreographer of Léo Delibes' ""Sylvia, ou la nymphe de Diane"" (1876). With Arthur Saint-Léon and Jules Perrot, he is one"
"Dance at Bougival Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. It has been described as ""one of the museum's most beloved works"". The work depicts two of Renoir's friends, Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote. The setting is the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris. Many Impressionists including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Renoir painted scenes there. The painting has been described as one of Renoir's first reversions"
"of the exhibition.<br> Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. The intense colorism of the works he painted between 1900 and"
"Jean-Jacques Etchevery Jean-Jacques de Peyret-Chappuis, called Jean-Jacques Etchevery (1916, Paris – 12 April 1997) was a 20th-century French dancer and choreographer. Trained by Lydia Karpova and Nicolas Zverev, from 1940 he danced at Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In 1945, he founded his own company ""L'Oiseau bleu"". In 1946, Georges Hirsch called him as ballet master of the Paris Opera then entrusted him, as director of dance, to establish a new national ballet at the Opéra-Comique. After six years, he left the Opéra-Comique to become choreographer, director of ballet, stage director and finally director at the Théâtre de la Monnaie"
"Pierre Carrier-Belleuse Pierre-Gérard Carrier-Belleuse (28 January 1851 in Paris – 29 January 1932 in Paris) was a French painter. His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Later he studied with Alexandre Cabanel and Pierre Victor Galland at the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1875 and won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). He also produced drawings and lithographs for Le Figaro Illustré. Best known for his ballet scenes and pastels, he also did landscapes, portraits and genre works. Most of his paintings are in private collections. The painter Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse"
"Marius Petipa Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Russian: Ма́риус Ива́нович Петипа́), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history. Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as ""Premier maître de ballet"" (""First Ballet Master"") of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (precursor of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet), a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived"
"Élisabeth Ballet Élisabeth Ballet (born 1956), is a French sculptor. Ballet was born on 11 December 1956 at Cherbourg, in Normandy. She was in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1984 and 1985. She became known in 1985 with two sculptures made out of cardboard, ""Temple 5/19 février 1985"" and ""Obélisque 4+14"". An internationally renowned artist, Élisabeth Ballet now lives and works in Paris. Ballet is interested in the combination of abstraction and subject taken from reality. Based on her perception of space, she has defined a program which adjusts her desires and her way of working. Her"
"Jean-Baptiste Blache Jean-Baptiste Blache de Beaufort (17 May 1765, Berlin – 24 January 1834, Toulouse) was a German ballet dancer and ballet master active in France. A student of Deshayes, he learned the violin and cello and had what was in essence a provincial career, mainly at Bordeaux, where he succeeded Jean Dauberval. He worked briefly at the Opéra de Paris, putting on ""The Barber of Seville"" (1806) and ""Les Fêtes de Vulcain"" (1820) there. Among his best known and most popular ballets are ""Les Meuniers"" (1787, admired by Arthur Saint-Léon), ""L'Amour et la Folie"", ""La Chaste Suzanne"", ""La Fille"
"Jean-Baptiste Pitrot Jean-Baptiste Pitrot (22 May 1729, Bordeaux - 4 January 1809, Brussels), called Pitrot cadet (""Pitrot the younger"") to distinguish him from his elder brother Antoine, was a French dancer and balletmaster. His father, Barthélemy Pitrot, was a French actor and dancer who criss-crossed the French provinces and the Southern Netherlands in the first half of the 18th century. He began his career before 1748 at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris. He was widely noted in a production of ""L'Opérateur chinois"", a ballet by Jean-Baptiste Dehesse, from 11 January 1749 onwards. He also put on the premiere of ""Les Tartares"""
"by then 76 years old, and he died shortly afterwards at the Grand Hospice in Brussels. Jean-Baptiste Pitrot Jean-Baptiste Pitrot (22 May 1729, Bordeaux - 4 January 1809, Brussels), called Pitrot cadet (""Pitrot the younger"") to distinguish him from his elder brother Antoine, was a French dancer and balletmaster. His father, Barthélemy Pitrot, was a French actor and dancer who criss-crossed the French provinces and the Southern Netherlands in the first half of the 18th century. He began his career before 1748 at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris. He was widely noted in a production of ""L'Opérateur chinois"", a ballet by"
"Charles Monnet Charles Monnet, also known as Charles Monet, (10 January 1732 - after 1808) was a French painter and illustrator, best known for his illustrations used in books, including illustrations of the French Revolution. Born in Paris, he studied under Jean II Restout. Although he never became a full academian, on July 27, 1765 he was made a provisional member of the Académie Royale, where he won first prize for the painting, ""Nabucliodonosor faisant crever les yeux à Sédicias et faisant massacrer ses enfants"". His works in the mid 1760s and 1770s included portraits and religious and mythical scenes."