Similarly, in Kronberg’s At the Ballet (n.d.) the viewer occupies an opera box with two attentive audience members [Fig. 1.18]. Kronberg depicts a pair of opera glasses perched on the railing of the box; presumably they are meant to be the viewer’s thus further inviting the spectator into the scene. Upon the stage a ballerina holding a bouquet takes a bow, and, in the lower left hand corner of the painting, the scroll of the double-bass peeks out from the orchestra pit below. The inclusion of a portion of the bass-viol is one Degas employed often. In a late work, Dancer on Stage (c. 1894) he juxtaposes the graceful figure of the dancer with the elegant curves of the scroll of the instrument [Fig. 1.19]. Shinn, too, applied this motif to similar ends in A French Music Hall (1906) [Fig. 1.20] and Dancer in White Before the Footlights (1910) [Fig. 1.21]. Kronberg’s, Shinn’s and Degas’s images that include the dancers on the stage, the musicians in the pit, and construct the viewer as an audience member contain multiple levels of looking. While the audience observes the stage, the viewer of the painting observes the observers as well as the performers. The subject is the ambience of the theater with its metropolitan crowd, black-coated musicians, and gauzy ballerinas frozen on a stage bathed in unnatural light.