Not on display
- Artist
- Edgar Degas 1834–1917
- Original title
- Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando
- Medium
- Pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 610 × 476 mm
frame: 750 × 620 × 60 mm
Storage transit frame: 920 × 757 × 144 mm (landscape) - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Samuel Courtauld 1933
- Reference
- N04710
Display caption
This is one of a sequence of pastels and drawings, many of which were executed on the spot, which were preparatory studies for an oil painting of the same subject now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. Miss Lala was a circus acrobat whose star turn involved being hoisted to the roof suspended by her teeth. Degas very much enjoyed popular entertainments, and executed many studies of dancers and singers. It seems that he respected, and possibly sympathised with, performers who were engaged in disciplined and strenous physical activity.
Gallery label, August 2004
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