Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans") is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic
During the next few years, he took up archaeology and between 1869–76 was a member of the "Société d’anthropologie de Paris". In 1872, he founded a museum at Aix-les-Bains and published a ground-breaking illustrated work on prehistoric tools, "Les armes et les outils préhistoriques reconstitués". His experiments with etching during this time were equally innovative, and he developed the technique of ‘variable etching’ ("eau-forte mobile") where, by varying the ink on the plate, he was able to produce individual results at each printing. He was to teach this technique to his old friend Edgar Degas and the two co-operated on, and duly signed, Degas' large monotype "The ballet master" of 1874, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.