On stage III
(Sur la scène III)
(1876-1877)
- Medium
- softground etching, drypoint and roulette
- Measurements
- 9.7 × 12.4 cm (image) 10.0 × 12.7 cm (plate) 13.1 × 21.7 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Welsh Reed & Shapiro 24V
- Edition
- 5th of 5 states
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds donated by Darcy Brennan Foundation, 2024
- Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Edgar Degas was one of only a few Impressionist painters to take a serious interest in the print medium. From the mid 1870s he was intensively engaged with printmaking and produced some of the most radically inventive etchings of the nineteenth century. On stage III depicts a ballet performance from the vantage point of the orchestra pit. This etching is closely related to Degas’ pastel-over-monotype Ballet at the Paris Opéra. It was created as a catalogue illustration for an 1877 exhibition organised by Les Amis des Arts de Pau in which Ballet at the Paris Opéra was displayed.