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Young Spartans Exercising
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
Academic history painting; Degas never saw Sparta and the setting is invented.
- Date
- 1860-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
National Gallery
In the collection of National Gallery
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- The National Gallery, London — collection record for Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, ‘Young Spartans Exercising’, NG3860; c. 1860, reworked later, oil on canvas, 109 × 155 cm; bought 1924 (Courtauld Fund) (nationalgallery.org.uk)
- Paul-André Lemoisne, ‘Degas et son œuvre’ (Paris, 1946–49), no. 70; National Gallery, ‘Degas’ (exh. cat.)
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