The Star
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
1879–1881
- Medium
- Pastel on cream wove paper, edge mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 73.3 × 57.4 cm (28 7/8 × 22 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
drawings (visual works)ImpressionismLeisureprints and drawingpastelpastels (crayons)womenpaperdancerscrayonspaper (fiber product)wove paperwork
About
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.
