Young boy on the defensive - Preparatory drawing for the painting Young Spartan Girls Exercising

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

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1958, Renoir, Degas, n° 3.a - Cincinnati, Art Museum, The Lehman Collection, 1959, n° 282 - New York, The Metropolitan Museum àf Art, Degas in the Metropolitan, 1977, n° 5 - Tübingen, Berlin, 1984, Degas. Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, cat. 41 (repr.) - Manchester, Cambridge, 1987, The Private Degas, n° 43, repr. p. 38 - Boston, Paris, 2011-2012, Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude, cat. 34, repr. p. 50  [Ed. française].

Burnell, "Degas and His Young Spartans Exercising", The Metropolitan Museum Studies,  1969, p. 56 - Szabo, 19th Century French Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection, 1980, n° 29 (repr.) - Rey, Roquebert, Shackelford, Cat. exp. Boston, Paris, 2011-2012, Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude.