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Creator	Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917
Title	Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
Title-Variant	Variant title: Ballet Dancer Dressed
Date	1880-1881
Format-Medium	bronze with gauze tutu and silk ribbon, on wooden base
Format-Extent	height: 39 in., 99.1 cm
Notes	Amico Library: 2001 ARTstor: 2005 ARTstor 2005 (2006 rev.) CAMIO 2006 Date Notes: Modeled 1880-81 cast 1919-21 Remarks: Other versions: Wax: Paris, Louvre. Plaster: Omaha (NE), Joslyn Art Museum Upperville (VA), Paul Mellon Collection. Bronze: Pasadena (CA) Norton Simon Museum of Art (master cast) Baltimore Museum Boston Museum of Fine Arts Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek London, Lefevre Gallery, Ltd. (Dunlop, 1979, p. 179) London, Tate Gallery New York, Metropolitan Museum Paris, Louvre Philadelphia, Henry McIlhenny (private collection) St. Louis Art Museum Sal Paulo, Museu de Arte University of East Anglia, Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Collection (Edinburgh 1979) Private collection (Bill Goetz, Art N., S.'51) Private collection, Stauros Spyros Niarchos (Arts, N '57) Private collection, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smooke (Fusco, 1980) see Parke-Bernet, March 5, 1971 Richmond (VA): Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Title Notes: Ballet Dancer Dressed Notes: Like all of Degas's bronzes, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen was cast only after the artist's death. The original figure, shown at the Impressionist exhibition of 1881, was modeled in wax, to which Degas added a hair wig and fabric tutu. Reaction to the work was mixed, with many critics finding the mundane subject matter and strange combination of materials unsuitable for a work of high art
Accession Number	Accession Number: 1955.45
Repository	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Mass
Nationality	Nationality: French
Inscription	Inscription: Wooden base marked Degas: metal shield in base: cire perdue, A.A.Hebrard-D
Subject	Sculpture, French -- 19th century Figures -- Female Dancers
Form-Genre	Sculpture (Visual work);Bronzes
Collection	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Museum Collections
Rights	http://www.clarkart.edu/museum_programs/index.cfm?ID=85 Rights and reproduction policy

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