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Degas’ sculpture stands outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century French sculpture. He was never interested in creating public monuments and, with one exception, neither did he display his sculpture publicly.

The exception was The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer. It was shown in the sixth Impressionist exhibition held in Paris in 1881, but the work has little to do with Impressionism.

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Modeled in wax and wearing a real bodice, stockings, shoes, tulle skirt, and horsehair wig with a satin ribbon, the figure astonished Degas’ contemporaries, not only for its unorthodox use of materials, but also and above all for its realism, judged brutish by some.

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer was not seen again publicly until April 1920.

The rest of his sculpture remained a private medium, akin to sketches or drawings, in which Degas, limiting himself to a small range of subjects, explored the problems that fascinated him.

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