Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando

Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando

Artist	Edgar Degas
Year	1879
Type	Oil painting
Dimensions	117.2 cm × 77.5 cm (46.1 in × 30.5 in)
Location	National Gallery, London

Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a painting by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist artist, now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, England. It shows the acrobat Miss La La hanging on a rope by her teeth at the Cirque Fernando in Montmartre, Paris.

The painting was bought by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund in 1925. It was returned from the Tate Gallery to the National Gallery in 1950.

External links

Information from the National Gallery
Degas: The Artist's Mind, exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (see index)

Edgar Degas

Paintings	The Bellelli Family (1858–67) Young Spartans Exercising (1860) Interior (1868–69) Count Lepic and His Daughters (1870) A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873) Place de la Concorde (1875) L'Absinthe (1876) The Dance Lesson (1879) Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) Portraits at the Stock Exchange (1879) The Millinery Shop (1879–86) Before the Race (1882-84)

Pastels	Waiting (1880-82) After the Bath, Woman drying herself (1890-95)

Sculptures	La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (1881)

Bibliography

Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando. Exh. cat. ed. by Linda Wolk-Simon, with Nancy Ireson and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York 2013.

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