The imaginary scene is set in a rehearsal room in the old paris opéra—a poster for rossini's "guillaume tell" is on the wall beside the mirror—even though the building had just burned to the ground. Object Type: painting. Date: 1874. Dimensions: 83.2 × 76.8 cm (32.7 × 30.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edgar Degas The Dance Class
