Detail View: The AMICA Library: The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.29.100.370
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Sculpture
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Creator Name:
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Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar
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Creator Role:
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Sculptor
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1834-1917
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Creator Name-CRT:
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By Edgar Degas
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Creator Name:
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Hébrard, A. A.
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Creator Role:
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Founder
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Cast by A. A. Hébrard
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Title:
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The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
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View:
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Alternate View
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Creation Date:
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19th-20th century (executed ca. 1880; cast in 1922)
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Creation Start Date:
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1880
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Creation End Date:
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1880
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Materials and Techniques:
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Bronze, partially tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair-ribbon; wood base
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Classification Term:
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Sculpture-Bronze
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Dimensions:
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H. (w/out base) 39 in. (99.1 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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29.100.370
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Credit Line:
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H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929
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Rights:
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Context:
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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. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.es29.100.370.AV2.tif
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