Youth with Arms Upraised
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
This energetic study of a male nude (as well as another drawing by the artist in the Lehman Collection, 1975.1.610) relate to Degas' Young Spartans Exercising (National Gallery, London), a painting he produced around 1860 and which preoccupied him for several years. Investigating light and contour in the clearly delineated figures, Degas poses his subjects as trials for transfer to canvas.
Edgar Degas, Young Spartans Exercising, ca. 1860. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1924
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