“Depuis ce jour-là M. Nissim Bernard n’avait jamais manqué de venir occupier sa place au déjeuner (comme l’eût fait à l’orchestre quelqu’un qui entretient une figurante, une figurante celle-là d’un genre fortement caracterisé, et qui attend encore son Degas). (Sodome et Gomorrhe, 237)

“Since that day, M. Nissim Bernard had never failed to come and occupy his seat at the lunch-table (as a man might occupy his seat in the stalls who was keeping a dancer, a dancer in this case of a distinct and special type which still awaits its Degas). (Sodom and Gomorrah, 237)

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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Two Dancers Entering the Stage, c. 1877-1878
Pastel over monotype in black ink on white modern laid paper
38.1 x 35 cm (15 x 13 3/4 in.) 
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.812