The Ballet Class (Degas, Musée d'Orsay)

The Ballet Class (French: La Classe de danse) is an oil painting on canvas painted between 1871 and 1874 by the French artist Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. It was commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Faure. Degas temporarily abandoned work on this painting, and delivered a work of a similar name to Faure.

The painting depicts dancers at the end of a lesson under ballet master Jules Perrot. Perrot and Degas were friends, and Degas painted the dance class in the Paris Opera a year after it burnt down.