A vintage patinated bronze sculpture, titled Small Arabesque after Edgar Degas, French, 1834 to 1917. Mounted on a rectangular shaped green marble stand. Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Except for The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, exhibited in 1881, his sculptures were unknown during his lifetime. They were discovered in 1917. If he turned to the same subjects horses, dances, bathing women it is because these sculptures were only intended to improve his paintings. Most of the surviving studies of dancers come from the years 1880 to 1890. European Bronze Sculptures, Figures, Figurines, Interior Design, and Collectibles.