The little fourteen-year-old dancer

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Hébrard, Adrien-Aurélien (1865-1937)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
ca. 1880
Height:
97.8 cm  (38 1/2 in.)
Width:
43.8 cm  (17 1/4 in.)
Depth:
36.5 cm  (14 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon; wood base

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 29.100.370]

Description

The model for this sculpture, and many other works by Degas, was a ballet student in the Paris Opéra named Marie van Goethem. This casting was made by Hébrard in 1922 using Degas' original model from ca. 1880.

People as subjects

Van Goethem, Marie (born 1865) (Dancer)

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

4587