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She hangs high above the audience.ĭegas has used foreshortening to show that Miss La La is performing almost directly overhead.

Miss La La is suspended from a thin rope and - as her outstretched arms and dangling legs prove - her only contact with the rope is through her teeth. The action is taking place near the ceiling above the ring, among the showy stucco decorations and supporting wrought iron roof beams of the Montmartre Circus. Miss La La’s teeth-only act at the Circus Fernando in Montmartre. It dates from 1879 and would have been painted here. Miss La La at The Circus Fernando in the National Gallery in London is Degas’ unique circus piece. Miss La La at The Circus Fernando, Montmartre It was the only sculpture that he ever publicly exhibited.īefore we examine this important and controversial work, let’s look at a painting. From the workshop in this building, Degas produced something special for the sixth Impressionist show in 1881: The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (also known as The Little Dancer). © OpenStreetMap contributors, the Open Database Licence (ODbL).ĭegas’ studio was in the courtyard behind the apartment doors he lived on the fifth floor. Edgar Degas lived and worked here from 1878/79 – 1882. An OpenStreetMap detail showing the route to point 10, 19 Rue Pierre Fontaine. Degas also lived here but not at the same time as Lautrec.

Toulouse-Lautrec keeps an eye on you as you approach his front door.

Nineteen Rue Pierre Fontaine is also a Toulouse-Lautrec site Lautrec lived in this building five years after Degas had left. A metal information panel put up by the Mayor of Paris marks the spot. We next catch up with Degas at point 10, 19 Rue Pierre Fontaine where he was present from 1878 – 82.

The apartment building where Degas created his Little Dancer sculpture © OpenStreetMap contributors, the Open Database Licence (ODbL). The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer sculpture and Miss La La Location: 19 Rue Pierre Fontaine, 1878/79 – 1882, point 10 Walk 2, map of lower Montmartre – Pigalle route and points of interest of the Montmartre walking tour Montmartre Artists’ Studios.