Ballerina Madeleine Parker

Parker, a student of Michel Fokine’s, had made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, by the age of 12. Her image is preserved in bronze sculptures created by the American, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, who used Parker as her model for Playdays, for which Parker posed in 1924 when she was only 12.

Ballerina Madeleine Parker in her dressing room (1925). Photo by Sasha/Getty Images.