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DEGAS'S LITTLE DANCER
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A.
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EDGAR DEGAS
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
1878-1881
Pigmented beeswax, clay, metal armature, rope, paintbrushes, human hair, silk and linen ribbon, cotton and silk tutu, linen slippers, on wooden base
Overall without base: 98.9 x 34.7 x 35.2 cm (38 15/16 x 13 11/16 x 13 7/8 in)
Weight: 49 lb. (22.226 kg)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
EDGAR DEGAS
Study in the Nude of Little Dancer
Aged Fourteen (Nude Little Dancer)
c. 1878-1881
Pigmented beeswax, plaster core, metal and wood armatures, on plaster and wooden bases
Overall without base: 69.5 x 29.3 x 30.3 cm (27 3/8 x 11 9/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Overall (wood base): 3.5 x 48 x 31.1 cm (1 3/8 x 18 7/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
Overall (plaster base): 5 x 34.6 x 26.8 cm (1 15/16 x 13 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
EDGAR DEGAS
The Dance Lesson
c. 1879
Oil on canvas
Overall: 38 x 88 cm (14 15/16 x 34 5/8 in.)
Framed: 59.7 x 108.3 x 5.1 cm (23 1/2 x 42 5/8 x 2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
EDGAR DEGAS
The Dance Class (École de Danse)
c. 1873
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection
EDGAR DEGAS
The Curtain
c. 1880
Pastel over charcoal and monotype on laid paper mounted on board
Sheet: 29 x 33.3 cm (11 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
EDGAR DEGAS
Ballet Dancers
c. 1877
Pastel and gouache over monotype
Overall: 29.7 x 26.9 cm (11 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Framed: 46.6 x 43.5 x 6.3 cm (18 3/8 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
EDGAR DEGAS
Dancers at the Old Opera House
c. 1877
Pastel over monotype on laid paper
Overall: 21.8 x 17.1 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Framed: 35.5 x 31.1 x 3.8 cm (14 x 12 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
EDGAR DEGAS
Ballet Scene
c. 1907
Pastel on greenish transparent tracing paper
Overall: 76.8 x 111.2 cm (30 1/4 x 43 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection
Paul Mathey
Edgar Degas
1882
Graphite on paperboard
Overall: 48.2 x 31.5 cm (19 x 12 3/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
EDGAR DEGAS
Dancer Seen from Behind
and Three Studies of Feet
c. 1878
Black chalk and pastel on blue-gray laid paper
Overall: 45.6 x 59.8 cm (17 15/16 x 23 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gift of Myron A. Hofer in memory of his mother, Mrs. Charles Hofer
Edgar Degas, executed in collaboration with Vicomte Ludovic NapolÉon Lepic
The Ballet Master (Le maître de ballet)
c. 1874
Monotype heightened and corrected with white chalk or wash
Plate: 56.5 x 70 cm (22 1/4 x 27 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 62 x 85 cm (24 7/16 x 33 7/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washigton, Rosenwald Collection
Paul Mellon with Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, at the opening of the West Building sculpture galleries
January 1983
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gallery Archives
Image © Dennis Brack/Black Star