Dancers Onstage (French - Danseuses sur la scène) is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by Edgar Degas, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

[1] The influence of the Japanese prints by Hokusai and Utamaro allowed Degas, in a phenomenon linked as a whole to the impressionist movement, to free one of the last barriers of academic painting, the vision of the object.

The liberated observation, the representation of the movement of the ballets allowed Degas to grasp everything that was unexpected in the fleeting aspect of this world.

The painter seeks to render the most diverse forms and attitudes, under the effect of light and movement, with complete objectivity; the theme will multiply and the rehearsals prior to the ballet became its field of investigation, like a landscape.

Degas, who was perfectly in tune with Impressionism in his early days, nevertheless distinguished himself from it by the personal and particular vision that he had on artificial lighting and the movement of the ballerinas' bodies.