The Star
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
1879/81
- Medium
- Pastel on cream wove paper, edge mounted on board
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 73.3 × 57.4 cm (28 7/8 × 22 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Diego Suarez
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The prima ballerina shown in Edgar Degas’s pastel has been identified as the Spanish dancer Rosita Mauri, who moved from Catalonia to Paris and gained fame at the Paris Opéra in the late 1870s.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
