Marie Geneviève van Goethem was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, detail of Degas' statue of van Goethem.
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art's bronze casting, with a restored tutu from 2018
The original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Angle from "The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas" collection at M.T. Abraham Foundation, cast in 1997. Note the varying tutu.
Cast of "Etude du nu pour la Petite danseuse de Quatorze ans" by Degas exhibited in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Dantes Plads 7, Copenhagen, Denmark.