Degas Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen Pin

$10.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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With her head held high, Degas's Little Dancer pin will be a proud adornment to your lapel or backpack. Degas's sculpture is of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem. Her arms are taut, and the legs and feet are placed in a ballet position akin to fourth position at rest, and there is tension in the pose, an image of a ballerina being put through her paces, not posing in an angelic way. Museum Exclusive Measures 2" x .5" Antiqued brass finish on brass Black…