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Young Spartans Exercising
Young Spartans Exercising, also known as Young Spartans and also as Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, is an early oil on canvas painting by French impressionist artist Edgar Degas. The work depicts two groups of male and female Spartan youth exercising and challenging each other in some way. The work is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in London.
Depiction.
The painting depicts as its subject matter two groups of older children, four girls and five boys, with the girls apparently taunting or
links.
- "Degas: The Artist's Mind", exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on "Young Spartans Exercising" (see index)
- "The National Gallery’s web page for the painting."