Discover Degas & Miss La La

by Chiara Di Stefano and Anne Robbins

The extraordinary story behind Degas's groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La.

Edgar Degas's Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La La, born Anna Albertine Olga Brown to a white Prussian mother and African-American father, was a renowned performer of extraordinary daring in fin-de-si cle Paris.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857097149
• ISBN13: 9781857097146
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Length: 136 Pages