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ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)

TITLE OF WORK: Fan: The Farandole (Eventail: La Farandole)

TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on silk, applied on carton, with touches of silk and gold paint

DATE: 1879

DIMENSIONS: 30.7 x 61 cm

COMMENTS: Signed "Degas". La Farandole is a ballet in three acts on music by Théodore Dubois, whose première took place in the Paris Opéra in December 1885. Degas saw the ballet on 03/06/1885, together with the

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris

DANCE FORM: ballet, farandole