"Private Life of a Masterpiece: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"", produced in 2004, closely examines the sculpture, the model, the circumstances of her life, and the critical reaction to the work. Cathy Marie Buchanan's novel, ""The Painted Girls"", presents a fictionalised account of the life of Marie van Goethem, the model for the sculpture, as does Carolyn Meyer's young adult novel ""Marie, Dancing"" and Laurence Anholt's children's picture book ""Degas and the Little Dancer"". In 2014, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. premiered the stage musical, ""Little Dancer"", inspired by the story of the young ballerina immortalized"
"The Dance Lesson The Dance Lesson (sometimes known as The Dancing Lesson) is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas created around 1879. It is currently kept at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There is at least one other work by Degas by this title, also made in about 1879, which is a pastel. The painting is the first of a series of about 40 pictures that Degas painted in this horizontal, frieze-like format. It measures . To the far left is a double bass with an exhausted dancer wearing a bright orange"
"The Wedding Dance The Wedding Dance (sometimes known as The Dance Village) is a 1566 oil-on-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Owned by the museum of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, the work was discovered by its director in England in 1930, and brought to Detroit. It is believed to be one of a set of three Bruegel works from around the same time, ""The Wedding Dance"", ""The Peasant Wedding"" (1567) and ""The Peasant Dance"" (1569). The painting depicts 125 wedding guests. As was customary in the Renaissance period, the brides wore black and men wore"
"Little Dancer of Fourteen Years The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: ""La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans"") is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem. The sculpture is one-third life size and was originally sculpted in wax, a somewhat unusual choice of medium for the time. It is dressed in a real bodice, tutu and ballet slippers and has a wig of real hair. All but a hair ribbon and the tutu are covered in wax. The 28 bronze repetitions that appear in"
"the Virgin which hangs on the tree. The prominence of the tavern makes it clear that they are preoccupied with material rather than spiritual matters. The Peasant Dance The Peasant Dance is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. Today it is held by and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The panel, neither signed nor dated, was painted ""circa"" 1567, at about the same time as ""The Peasant Wedding"". The paintings are the same"
"seen. The woman who holds a fan in her right hand, displays a smiling face and looks towards the viewer. The scene is bathed in a bright and cheerful atmosphere, and the women's clothes use warm colors (yellow gloves, red hat). Dance in the Country Dance in the Country (French: ""Danse à la campagne"") is an 1883 oil painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This painting was commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel who wanted works on the theme of the ball. He bought it in 1886, exhibited"
"The Sword Dance The Sword Dance () is an 1881 painting by the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Dance Amongst Daggers, Dance Amongst Swords and similar variations. It depicts a nude woman who dances between swords while a group of women play music and a few men watch. The setting is Italian and there have been several interpretations of what exactly the painting depicts. Siemiradzki made four versions of the painting, each with a slightly different composition and colour scheme. One of the versions, originally commissioned by K. T. Soldatenkov, is located at the Tretyakov Gallery"
"in Moscow. Another version was sold at auction in 2011 for 2,098,500 dollars, which was the new record for a Siemiradzki painting. The record was held until 2013, when ""Un naufragé mendiant"" was sold for 1,082,500 pounds. The Sword Dance The Sword Dance () is an 1881 painting by the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Dance Amongst Daggers, Dance Amongst Swords and similar variations. It depicts a nude woman who dances between swords while a group of women play music and a few men watch. The setting is Italian and there have been several interpretations of"
"The Peasant Dance The Peasant Dance is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. Today it is held by and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The panel, neither signed nor dated, was painted ""circa"" 1567, at about the same time as ""The Peasant Wedding"". The paintings are the same size and may have been intended as a pair or as part of a series illustrating peasant life. They are the two most outstanding examples"
"At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted in 1890, and is the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889. It portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle of the crowded dance hall. A recently discovered inscription by Toulouse-Lautrec on the back of the painting reads: ""The instruction of the new ones by Valentine the Boneless."" This means that the man to the left of the woman dancing, is"
"The Valpinçon Bather The Valpinçon Bather (Fr: La Grande Baigneuse) is an 1808 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), held in the Louvre since 1879. Painted while the artist was studying at the French Academy in Rome, it was originally titled Seated Woman but later became known after one of its nineteenth-century owners. Although the painting was not met with favour by critics when first exhibited, almost fifty years later, when the artist's reputation was well established, the Goncourt brothers wrote that ""Rembrandt himself would have envied the amber color of this pale torso"", while"
"Dance in the Country Dance in the Country (French: ""Danse à la campagne"") is an 1883 oil painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This painting was commissioned in 1882 by the merchant Paul Durand-Ruel who wanted works on the theme of the ball. He bought it in 1886, exhibited it for the first time in April 1883, and kept it until Renoir's death in 1919. A complementary painting on the same theme, named ""Dance in the City"", was also painted by Renoir the same year. The painting, influenced by the"
"La danse, Bacchante La danse (also known as Bacchante) is an oil painting created circa 1906 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). ""Bacchante"" is a pre-Cubist or Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly personal Divisionist style during the height of the Fauve period. ""Bacchante"" was painted in Paris at a time when Metzinger and Robert Delaunay painted portraits of one another, exhibiting together at the Salon d'Automne and the Berthe Weill gallery. ""Bacchante"" was exhibited in Paris during the spring of 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants (No. 3460), along with ""Coucher de soleil"" and four other"
"The Waltz (Claudel) The Waltz (French: ""La valse"") or The Waltzers (French: ""Les valseurs"") is a sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel. It depicts two figures, a man and a woman, locked in an amorous embrace as they dance a waltz. The work was inspired by Claudel's burgeoning love affair with her mentor and employer Auguste Rodin. Various versions were made from 1889 to 1905, initially in modelled in plaster, and later cast in bronze. Examples are held by the Musée Rodin and the Musée Camille Claudel. Claudel was studying with Alfred Boucher in Paris when she was first introduced"
"Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair (Varma) Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a domestic scene in which a Nair woman adorning her hair with a garland of flowers in front of a mirror. The painting was notable for being the first major award-winning work that Ravi Varma had completed. Receiving praise at the international and national level, the painting had brought the young Ravi Varma into the attention of the global artistic community, as well as leading him on to later become one of the most well known modern Indian"
"Paris Salon of 1882. The work is on view at the Metropolitan Museum, Gallery 771. Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) is an 1882 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The subject of the painting was the twenty-year-old daughter of a Swiss merchant, members of the artist’s cosmopolitan circle in Paris. The monochromatic tones and emphasis on the figure’s silhouette are reminiscent of the style of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, whose work Sargent had been encouraged"
"embodied in the tense eye contact between the women's lapdog (representing the arrogant middle class) and the young calves (symbolic of the peasant world about to erupt into rebellion). Others see it as simply reusing an old philosophical archetype of generously giving charity to the poor, albeit in a balanced and distanced manner far from the Roman Catholic aesthetic rules at the forefront of other painters' work, abandoning their high level of finish and heightening the format and line. The Duchess of Morny resold the work to the hôtel Drouot in 1878 for 5000 francs. It arrived in the USA"
"Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn is a painting from 1738 by British artist William Hogarth. It was reproduced as an engraving and issued with ""Four Times of the Day"" as a five print set in the same year. The painting depicts a company of actresses preparing for their final performance before the troupe is disbanded as a result of the Licensing Act 1737. Brought in as a result of John Gay's ""Beggar's Opera"" of 1728, which had linked Robert Walpole with the notorious criminal Jonathan Wild, the Licensing Act made it compulsory for"
"The Lace Maker The Lace Maker (1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Caspar Netscher. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the Wallace Collection. The woman is sitting working over a lace pillow on bobbin lace. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1913, who wrote; ""48. THE LACE MAKER. Sm. 21. Full length. A young girl, simply dressed, sits in profile to the right. She is working with both hands at a bobbin-lace cushion held on her lap. She wears a green skirt, a bright red"
"Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) is an 1882 painting by John Singer Sargent. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The subject of the painting was the twenty-year-old daughter of a Swiss merchant, members of the artist’s cosmopolitan circle in Paris. The monochromatic tones and emphasis on the figure’s silhouette are reminiscent of the style of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, whose work Sargent had been encouraged to study by his Parisian teacher Carolus-Duran. It was exhibited to great acclaim at the"
"The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman dressed in a yellow shawl, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm (9.6 in x 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, but in many ways one of his most abstract and unusual. The canvas used was cut from the same"
"A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) A Dance to the Music of Time is a painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Wallace Collection in London. It was painted between about 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), who according to Gian Pietro Bellori dictated its detailed iconography. The identity of the figures remains uncertain, with differing accounts. The painting is well known for giving its name to the ""A Dance to the Music of Time"" novel cycle, though this title is first seen in a Wallace Collection catalogue of 1913. Before that"
"Dance of Time (Clodion) The Dance of Time: Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock is a work by the French sculptor Claude Michel (1738–1814), also known as Clodion. Executed in 1788, it includes three terracotta female figures, frequently described as nymphs, dancing around a column that supports a pendulum clock with rotating annular dial by Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (1727–1802), the younger brother of Jean-André Lepaute. It is the only eighteenth-century clock featuring a terracotta sculpture as a completed work of art known to scholars. Clodion may have been influenced by Poussin's painting, ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", which was executed"
"hinting again at a sexual overtone. According to the art historian Lawrence Gowing, The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman dressed in a yellow shawl, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm (9.6 in x 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, but in many ways one of"
"The Lady with a Fan (Velázquez) The Lady with a Fan is a major oil painting by the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez. It depicts a woman wearing a black lace veil on her head and a dark dress with a low-cut bodice. On the basis of its place in Velázquez's stylistic development, the portrait is thought to have been painted between 1638 and 1639. It is now in the Wallace Collection in London. ""The Lady with a Fan"" is an enigmatic portrait. Although most other Velázquez portraits are easily recognizable likenesses of the members of the Spanish royal family,"
"La Danse (Carpeaux) La Danse is an 1868 sculpture by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was one of four sculptural groups made from Echaillon marble that decorate the façade of the Opera Garnier in Paris, two to either side of the entrance at ground level. The work was installed in 1869, and widely criticised as obscene. It was attacked in August 1869 when an anonymous vandal threw black ink over it. The scandal subsided after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and the original statue remained on the façade at the opera until it was transferred to"
"singer Jean-Baptiste Faure, who had commissioned the work. The picture is on view in the Met Museum's Gallery 815. The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt"
"The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt down the previous year. The poster on the wall for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell is a tribute to the operatic"
"Dance (Matisse) Dance (""La Danse"") is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as ""a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the development of modern painting"".. A preliminary version of the work, sketched by Matisse in 1909 as a study for the work, resides at MoMA in New York City, where it’s been labeled Dance (I). In March 1909, Matisse painted a preliminary version of"
"with funds provided by Winthrop Kellogg Edey (1938-1999), an American connoisseur and collector of clocks and watches and a leading scholar on horology. The Edey Collection includes a bequest of twenty-five clocks, fourteen watches, and a reference library relating to the history of time measurement. Dance of Time (Clodion) The Dance of Time: Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock is a work by the French sculptor Claude Michel (1738–1814), also known as Clodion. Executed in 1788, it includes three terracotta female figures, frequently described as nymphs, dancing around a column that supports a pendulum clock with rotating annular dial by Jean-Baptiste"
"as a vagary of the artist. Today ""El Jaleo"" is considered to be one of John Singer Sargent's most memorable works. El Jaleo El Jaleo is a large painting by John Singer Sargent, depicting a Spanish Gypsy dancer performing to the accompaniment of musicians. Painted in 1882, it currently hangs in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was inspired by a five-month trip Sargent made through Spain and North Africa in 1879, which also yielded a smaller oil painting, ""The Spanish Dance"" (Hispanic Society of America). Chronologically and thematically, the painting is related to a series of"
"El Jaleo El Jaleo is a large painting by John Singer Sargent, depicting a Spanish Gypsy dancer performing to the accompaniment of musicians. Painted in 1882, it currently hangs in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was inspired by a five-month trip Sargent made through Spain and North Africa in 1879, which also yielded a smaller oil painting, ""The Spanish Dance"" (Hispanic Society of America). Chronologically and thematically, the painting is related to a series of works Sargent painted during a subsequent stay in Venice; these, too, include dramatic light effects, exotic models, and restrained coloring. Impressed"
"Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Gold Chain is a 1634 portrait painted by Rembrandt. It shows a smiling woman with a triple lace collar. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Several oval portraits of a woman of 17th-century Amsterdam have survived, and sometimes these were pendants and sometimes they were individual portraits. This painting, as well as its pendant, has been attributed to Rembrandt since the 19th-century, but doubts have been raised by the Rembrandt Research Project. This painting came into the collection via Mrs."