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Dance Class at the Opera by Edgar Degas, 1872
This was one of the first of his rehearsal-room pictures, painted when he'd started getting himself in behind the scenes at the Paris opera house through friends with subscriptions. The building he was working in burned down a few years later, from what I can find, so the room itself is long gone.
Erisava: The whole room's the colour of weak tea, and those dresses are the only bright bit.
The Ballet Class by Edgar Degas, 1871
The man leaning on the cane is Jules Perrot, a real ballet master — apparently Degas painted him well after actually watching him teach a class like this one. The whole scene was reportedly commissioned by a composer, Jean-Baptiste Faure, not a museum.
Erisava: Does the pale green room feel more tired than lively to you?