About two dozen young dancers fill a long, dimly lit rehearsal room with a wooden floor. At the left a spiral staircase climbs out of the picture, with the legs of dancers in tutus coming down it. Some girls raise their arms to their hair, one at the right in a red jacket sits turned away, and others tie sashes and adjust their shoes.

In the foreground a bench holds a pair of pink ballet slippers, and a doorway at the back opens on more dancers in the next room. The tutus are white, with sashes in pink, yellow, teal and blue. No dancer is named. Edgar Degas painted this small canvas, about 19 by 24 inches, around 1873 and signed it at the lower right.

It was included in the exhibition Degas at the Opera, shown at the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in 2019–2020. It was bought in London in 1876 by Henry Hill of Brighton and later passed through Paris and New York dealers to the collector William A. Clark, who bequeathed it to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in 1926. The National Gallery of Art acquired it in 2014.

It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.