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Edgar Degas
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-1881
Marie van Goethem
from https://www.nga.gov/features/degas-opera.html
Marie van Goethem was born in 1865, the second of three sisters, all of whom pursued careers at the Paris Opéra. Her father, a tailor, and her mother, a laundress, had moved the family to Paris from Brussels in 1861 in search of a better life. In 1878 Marie became a student at the school of dance at the Opéra and shortly thereafter began to pose for Degas, most famously for his sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. In 1882 she was dismissed from the Opéra for poor attendance. Her subsequent fate remains unknown. |