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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

Edgar Degas

The young dancer Marie van Goethem, modeled in wax and later cast in bronze with a real tutu and hair ribbon.

Artist
Edgar Degas
Date
1881, later bronze casts
Medium
Bronze, fabric, and silk
Movement
Impressionism
Origin
France
Where it is
Original wax at the National Gallery of Art; bronzes private and public

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