# The Star

- By: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Diego Suarez
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/60656)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0850f3ab-a29d-acc7-0d3b-0551ceeea5ed/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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