Focus on this artwork and explain the Relation to other paintings.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a painting titled Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass, dated 1882–85, which is possibly the second painting in the sequence. Another painting from the sequence, Before the Ballet (1890/1892), is also in the National Gallery of Art., and Ballet Rehearsal (La salle de danse, c.1885) is in the Yale University Art Gallery. When placed side by side in a frieze format, the paintings take on a decorative aspect although were not originally intended to be hung this way. It has been suggested that the 40-odd paintings collectively show how Degas examined his theory that the "intervals between figures and space were the basis for creating ornament".
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