Art Institute of Chicago
Three Studies of a Dancer in Fourth Position
Edgar Degas
- Date
- 1879/80
- Medium
- Charcoal and pastel with stumping, and touches of brush and black wash, on grayish-tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on gray wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Made in preparation for the sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , this remarkable drawing depicts the model Marie van Goethem from three different perspectives: left profile, right profile, and facing the viewer. Edgar Degas wanted to understand the figure in the round, in two dimensions, before he approached the sculpture in three dimensions.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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