The Schoolgirl
Degas's sculpture stands quite outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century French sculpture. He was never interested in creating public monuments, neither did he ever display his sculpture publicly, with the exception of The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. Instead, it remained a private medium, akin to sketches or drawings, in which he limited himself largely to certain sets of subjects within which he explored the problems that fascinated him. The human figures are often repetitions of the same subject, each displaying subtle variaitons in composition or in the dynamics of movement or tension within the figure.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Schoolgirl
- Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
- Founder: Cast by A. A. Hébrard (Paris)
- Date: modeled ca. 1879–81, cast 1956
- Culture: French
- Medium: Bronze, black marble base
- Dimensions: H. w. base: 11-5/8 in. (29.5 cm.); H. w/out base: 10-5/8 in. (27 cm.); W. 4-5/8 in. (11.7 cm.); D. 5-7/8 in. (14.9 cm.)
- Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow, 1977
- Object Number: 1977.338
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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