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Artist: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas (1834-1917) (16) Foundry: A A Hébrard Foundry, Paris (6)
Period: 19th century (9230)
Type: bronze (131)
Keywords
ballet dancers (35) | figures (4114) | women (1424)
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Circa 1885 =1890
Artist
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas (1834-1917)
Foundry
A A Hébrard Foundry, Paris
Bronze casting
Width: 32.6 cm (max); Depth: 22 cm (including base); Height: 56.3 cm (max);
Inscription
Numbered and stamped with the foundry mark, on
base, 57/K Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard // Inscription, Degas signature stamped on base
Acquisition (source, method, date)
HM Government (Acceptance in Lieu); allocation; 2006 S.2006.LB.1
About this work
From the late 1860s Degas took up sculpture, focusing in particular on ballerinas. Degas modelled his figures in a highly malleable mixture of wax and clay, using ordinary things like matchsticks, wire and wine corks to strengthen them. Here a bit of wire used as an armature is visible poking out of the right hand. Degas never had any of his sculpture cast in bronze.
(Permanent collection label)
Copyright: © Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery 2006.
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