©The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Robert Lehman Collection

Young boy with raised arms - Preparatory Ddrawing for the painting Young Spartan Girls Exercising

[Jeune garçon les bras levés - Dessin préparatoire au tableau Jeunes filles spartiates s'exerçant ]

MS : 3003
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - New York - Etats-Unis
Inv. 1975.1.609

The Artwork
Dimensions
31.7 × 19.4 cm - 12 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.
Period
1859 - 1860
Medium
Craie noire et crayon
Support
Papier beige
Stamp
ATELIER ED.DEGAS (au verso) ; Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas -  Marius de Zayas, New York - Vente Zayas, Anderson Galleries, New York, 23 mars 1923, n° 70 - Robert Lehman, 1942 - New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975 [Collection Robert Lehman].

Exhibitions

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1958, Renoir, Degas : A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures, n° 3.b [Non reproduit] - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 40 (repr.) - Manchester, Cambridge, 1987, The Private Degas, n° 1, repr. p. 39 - Boston, Paris, 2011-2012, Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude, cat. 33, repr. p. 50 [Ed. française].

Bibliography

Rey, Roquebert, Shackelford, Cat. exp. Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude.

Last updated : 29/01/2026

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