Edgar Degas painted two paintings that appeared very similar, namely The Dance Class (1874), housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City, and The Ballet Class (c. 1871 to 1874) housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Both paintings were commissioned by Jean-Baptiste Faure, but Degas apparently started working on The Dance Class, which he gave to Faure.