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![National Gallery of Art on X: "Meet Marie van Goethem. The daughter of a laundress and a tailor from Belgium who had moved to France. Marie was a ballet student at the Paris Opera. Here, in Degas' famous wax sculpture, she stands posed in a casual 4th ... National Gallery of Art on X: "Meet Marie van Goethem. The daughter of a laundress and a tailor from Belgium who had moved to France. Marie was a ballet student at the Paris Opera. Here, in Degas' famous wax sculpture, she stands posed in a casual 4th ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeaqEpkXgAIu7-l.jpg:large)
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![Bronze version of The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans), Edgar Degas, 1880. Sculpture of Marie van Goethem, a student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, which Degas Bronze version of The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans), Edgar Degas, 1880. Sculpture of Marie van Goethem, a student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, which Degas](https://i.redd.it/tyv2inrc0x9b1.jpg)
Bronze version of The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans), Edgar Degas, 1880. Sculpture of Marie van Goethem, a student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, which Degas
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