Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (colour)

The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (Fr. La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture by Edgar Degas depicting a student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem. The work was started in c. 1880, first made by Degas in a reddish-brown wax in which the girl was sculpted nude. Then, aiming for naturalism in his work, he dressed the sculpture in clothing made of muslin and silk. The internal structure of the constructed using pigmented beeswax, with a metal a