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Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source"
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs.
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