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Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Alternate Title: La petite danseuse de quatorze ans
French, original model 1878–81, cast after 1921
Edgar Degas, French, 1834–1917
France
Total height: 103.7 cm; Height of Figure: 98 cm; Height of base: 5.7 cm; width of base 45.5 cm; depth of base: 46.5 cm
Bronze, gauze and satin
Classification: SculptureOn view in the: Sidney and Esther Rabb Gallery (European Art 1870–1900)Bronze. Figure of a girl ballet dancer. Tulle skirt. Museum of Fine Arts, BostonFrederick Brown Fund and Contributions from William Claflin and William Emerson, 1938
Accession number: 38.1756Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.
Possibly Jeanne Févre, Nice, France [see note 1]. 1938, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York; 1938, sold by Harriman Gallery to the MFA for $3400. (Accession Date: December 8, 1938)
NOTES:
[1] Mlle. Févre was Degas's niece; this information comes from notes in the MFA curatorial file but has not been verified.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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