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Marie van Goethem
French ballet dancer
Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; born 7 June ) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans).
Early life
Marie was the daughter of a laundress and a tailor, who came to Paris in the early s from Belgium.
Marie van goethem and degas house
She was born in in the diverse 9th arrondissement of Paris. Marie's oldest sister, Antoinette, was born in Brussels in A second older sister, also named Marie, died eighteen days after her birth in Marie's younger sister, Louise Joséphine, born in Paris in , adopted the name of Charlotte and died there in Her father died at some point between and , leaving Madame van Goethem to fend for her three daughters on a laundress's income.
In , the year Marie was born, the family moved to a stone apartment building on 'Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette' called 'Place Bréda' near Degas's stud