L'Étoile (The Star)

Edgar Degas

Painted

c. 1876–77

Collection

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The principal dancer, the étoile, extends her arms and lifts one leg in the middle of the stage, seen from above as if from a box. Her white tutu and flowers glow under the stage lights above an empty expanse of floor, while behind the scenery at left a man in a black suit stands among other dancers. He is usually taken to be one of the wealthy subscribers who had the run of the Paris Opéra backstage.

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