Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Waiting (Degas)

Waiting (Degas)

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Original – Waiting, a pastel on paper by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas, completed between 1880–82. It is one of his earlier pastels, and part of a series of works depicting ballerinas. Here is a ballerina accompanied by her chaperone, bent over ostensibly to massage her foot but whose body language indicates a person racked with anticipation before she takes stage.

Reason

Very high quality and high resolution scan of a notable painting by a notable artist

Articles in which this image appears

Waiting (Degas) +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Edgar Degas

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Jobas (talk) 01:02, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Hafspajen (talk) 01:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support The stark contrast between black and white is what's so appealing about this particular work. Étienne Dolet (talk) 01:24, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Famous work, captures the moment. (A bit shy on pixels?) Sca (talk) 14:02, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - 11,297 × 8,872 pixels ..shy ? Hafspajen (talk) 20:36, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^{Oh ... oops! Sca (talk) 21:56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)}

• Sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

• ^{Crisco, is that aimed at me? I wasn't being sarcastic – I just misread the sizes of the pic. on Commons. Simply a mistake. Sorry. Sca (talk) 15:18, 6 March 2015 (UTC)}

• Ah. Some people end up going for "ironic" with pix this size, saying "too small". No worries. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:12, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

• Support -National Names 2000 (talk) 02:56, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Edgar Degas - Waiting - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:19, 15 March 2015 (UTC)