Waldemar Schröder has long been a great admirer of Edgar Degas, whom he appreciates as a painter, but especially as a sculptor. Already in 1997 he made it his mission to bring Degas’s famous to recreate wax figure from 1878 with your own hands; now he took up the subject again. It is in the strict do not feel a copy, but free from the artist in the studio hand shaped and shaped and at the same time a deep bow before the genius of the model, whose name also adorns the pedestal.

It is about the young Elevin Marie Genevieve van Goethem, who was also the model for one of Degas' paintings.