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Degas: Proving the pose

Duration: 02:52

Fiona Bruce visits Degas’s old haunt – the Palais Garnier in Paris – where she aims to prove that the pose in our painting is based on a real ballet dance position.

Available since: Fri 5 Oct 2012

This clip is from

Fake or Fortune? Series 2, Degas and the Little Dancer

1/3 Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a painting thought by some to be a work by Degas.

First broadcast: 16 Sep 2012

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