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"La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans" ("Little Dancer of Fourteen Years"), 1881, is a sculpture by Edgar Degas of a young dance student. The sculpture was originally made in wax before it was cast in 1922 in bronze. When it was shown in Paris at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881, it received mixed reviews. The majority of critics were shocked by the piece. They thought it was ugly, that it looked like a medical specimen, in part because Degas exhibited it inside a glass case. Some considered the head and face grotesque and primitive. Shown in Hemingway's Sculpture Remixed room