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The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Founder: Cast by A. A. Hébrard (Paris)
Date: model executed ca. 1880, cast 1922
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: Bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon; wood base
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): H. 38 1/2 x W. 17 1/4 x D. 14 3/8 in. (97.8 x 43.8 x 36.5 cm) [n.b.: fluffiness of skirt skews measurement]
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number: 29.100.370
On view in Gallery 815
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Degas exhibited the original version of this sculpture at the sixth Impressionist exhibition, in 1881. The wax figure, tinted to simulate flesh, was clothed in a real bodice, tutu, and ballet slippers and topped by a horsehair wig tied with a silk ribbon. The care with which Degas observed his model, a ballet student in the Paris Opéra named Marie van Goethem, is reflected in the extraordinary number of surviving sketches in charcoal and pastel as well as in the preparatory sculptural study of the figure in the nude.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Burnt into wood of base: Degas

    Marking: Within bronze rectangle let into base: CIRE / PERDUE / AA HEBRARD / A ; within bronze seal on left thigh: CIRE / PERDUE / AA HEBRARD ; incised in bronze to right of seal on left thigh: (A) serial letter

  • Provenance

    A. A. Hébrard , (in 1922; sold to Havemeyer) ; Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer , New York (1922–d. 1929; bequeathed to MMA)

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