Dancer in arabesque

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

late 19th-early 20th c.

Height:

53.3 cm  (21 in.)

Width:

20.3 cm  (8 in.)

Depth:

34.9 cm  (13 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

bronze

Description

Dancer standing on left leg, with left arm stretched forward; right leg is backwards and bent, with right arm reaching backward to hold right foot.

Iconclass

48C8422
female dancer
43C912
woman dancing alone
31AA262521
standing on one leg, the other leg backwards, bent and drawn up - AA - female human figure

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Gross, Jennifer, ed. Edgar Degas: Defining the modernist edge (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003) 7, 10, 68–69, no. 19, pl. 19.

Notes

Model created 1896–1911; cast in 1920s

RIdIM record id

6202