The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.

Degas’ uncannily realistic depiction of an “opera rat,” as young dancers with the Paris Opera ballet were known, was a deeply unsettling challenge both to academic tradition and to French bourgeois society.

2014年11月4日 · Edgar Degas created a sensation when he presented his Little Dancer sculpture at the Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1881. His intention was to portray a young girl who dreamed of having...

The mixed media of the Little Dancer, basically a wax statuette dressed in real clothes, was very innovative, most of all because she was considered a modern subject—a student dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet. Marie van Goethem, the model for the figure, was the daughter of a Belgian tailor and a laundress; her working–class background was ...

2022年9月17日 · Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer of Fourteen Years shocked the public. What was the truth behind the depiction of a mischievous little ballerina and what had criminology to do with it?

The Met's bronze cast of Degas's Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer has captivated generations of visitors since it was acquired in the bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer in 1929, but many admirers may not be familiar with the material transformation of the sculpture—from wax to bronze and through a series of custom-fitted skirts—since Degas ...

The wealthy and adventurous collector’s interest in Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer dates to her first glimpse of the wax model for it on view in 1881 at the Paris Salon. Self-taught in sculpture, Degas made numerous wax models on wire armatures.

2023年8月18日 · Bronze replicas of Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen fill museums around the world. But the artist himself only created one Little Dancer. Made of beeswax, clay, metal, wood, and rope, the sculpture stands proudly in our galleries, surviving for a good century longer than expected.

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When Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen was first exhibited at the 1881 Impressionist exhibition—modeled in wax, with a real tutu and real hair—reaction was mixed. The figure’s awkward limbs and inscrutable expression seemed at odds with the traditional image of the elegant ballerina.