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"The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer" is a sculpture by French artist Edgar Degas, originally modeled in wax around 1880. The work depicts Marie van Goethem, a young student at the Paris Opera Ballet, posed in a relaxed stance with her hands clasped behind her back. Following Degas's death, the orig...
"Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" is a sculpture by Edgar Degas that was first publicly exhibited at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1881. The work represents a young ballet student named Marie van Goethem from the Paris Opera. It was originally sculpted in wax and uniquely incorporated m...
The Dance Class is an oil painting completed by Edgar Degas around 1874, showing ballet students rehearsing under the direction of Jules Perrot, a prominent dancer and choreographer. Set in a practice room associated with the Paris Opera, it combines carefully observed poses with an asymmetrical com...
The Bellelli Family is a large family portrait painted by Edgar Degas over several years beginning in the late 1850s. It depicts his aunt Laura Bellelli with her husband, Baron Gennaro Bellelli, and their daughters Giulia and Giovanna in a Florentine interior, arranging the figures to suggest emotio...
L'Absinthe is an 1876 painting by Edgar Degas depicting a woman and a man seated beside one another at a Paris cafe. A glass of absinthe stands before the woman, while the off-center composition and the figures' withdrawn expressions create an atmosphere of social distance and urban isolation. The w...
Woman Ironing is an oil painting by Edgar Degas, made during the late nineteenth century and now held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It depicts a working-class laundress leaning into the physical effort of pressing fabric, a subject Degas examined repeatedly in paintings, drawing...
