Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Dancers in the Wings Made in France, Europe1879-80 Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917 Etching, aquatint, and drypoint Currently not on view 1949-89-4 Purchased with the Joseph E. Temple Fund, 1949 |
LabelA cavern or grottolike setting was encountered in several late-nineteenth-century Opéra productions. This etching resembles the set for act II of the ballet Sylvia in which the heroine is trapped in a cave. |
