Dancer rubbing her knee, known as dancer in the role of Harlequin

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 1885

Height:

30.5 cm  (12 in.)

Width:

9.4 cm  (3 11/16 in.)

Depth:

16.5 cm  (6 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

bronze

Iconclass

31AA2391
bending figure - AA - female human figure
31AA26232
standing on one leg, the other leg forward, bent - AA - female human figure
31AA262322
standing on one leg, the other leg forward, held by hand(s) - AA - female human figure
48C8422
female dancer
43C912
woman dancing alone
48C85431(HARLEQUIN)
types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin

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) 11, 29–31, no. 7, pl. 7.


Art for Yale: Collecting for a new century (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007) 240, pl. 228.

Notes

Model created ca. 1885; cast in 1920s

RIdIM record id

6203