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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.
Edgar Degas’s famous statue of a ballerina came to the Museum as part of the bequest of Louisine Havemeyer. Together with numerous paintings and sketches by the artist, Mrs. Havemeyer donated seventy-one of his bronzes, the first nearly complete set of the artist’s works in bronze to enter any museum. [1]
Nov 20, 2018 · The Story of an Iconic Statue: Behind Degas’s Little Dancer. Who Was Marie van Goethem? By Camille Laurens. November 20, 2018. She is famous the world over, but how many people know her name? You can admire her in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, and Copenhagen, but where is her grave?
Oct 20, 2014 · Ballerina Marie Van Goethem started modeling for Edgar Degas around 1878 and inspired his statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. But history lost track of her after she left the Paris Opera.
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Mar 13, 2022 · Edgar Degas (1834–1917) is considered as one of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century but remarkably, the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is the only sculpture he exhibited in his lifetime.
Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; born 7 June 1865) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans).
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Dec 18, 2023 · In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan embarked on a unique restoration project for Edgar Degas’s famed sculpture, The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. Crafted in 1881, this sculpture has stood the test of time, but its tutu showed signs of wear.
