Little Dancer of Fourteen Years

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ballet sculpture sculpture

Little Dancer of Fourteen Years is a famous late-19th-century sculpture by Edgar Degas depicting a young ballet student in a naturalistic, lifelike pose that challenged traditional ideals of beauty and art.

Aliases (1)

La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ballet sculpture → sculpture →
artHistoricalSignificance	challenged traditional ideals of beauty in sculpture → early example of mixed-media sculpture →
artist	Edgar Degas →
castAfterDeathOfArtist	true →
collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (one bronze cast) → Musée d'Orsay, Paris (one bronze cast) → National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (one bronze cast) → Tate, London (one bronze cast) →
countryOfOrigin	France →
creator	Edgar Degas →
depictionType	full-length standing figure →
depicts	ballerina → young ballet student →
exhibitedAt	Sixth Impressionist Exhibition →
exhibitionStart	1881 →
firstReception	mixed to hostile critical response →
genre	Realism →
hasPart	fabric bodice → ribbon in hair → tulle skirt →
height	approximately 98 cm →
inception	circa 1880–1881 →
influenced	later modern sculpture →
locationOfFirstExhibition	Paris →
materialUsed	bronze (later casts) → fabric tutu → real hair (original) → wax (original) →
model	Marie van Goethem →
movement	Impressionism →
notableFor	controversial reception at first exhibition → naturalistic, lifelike depiction → use of real materials in sculpture →
orientation	three-quarter profile stance →
originalLanguageTitle	La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans →
originalMedium	pigmented wax over armature →
period	late 19th century →
placeOfCreation	Paris →
pose	fourth position (ballet) →
setInPeriod	Third Republic France →
subjectName	Marie van Goethem →
theme	ballet → working-class life in Paris → youth →
title	Little Dancer of Fourteen Years →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Edgar Degas →	notableWork
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years ("La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans") →	originalLanguageTitle
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years →	title