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| Edgar Degas Study for Young Spartans Exercising ca. 1859-60 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Young Spartans Exercising 1860 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
"Evidence of Degas' classical education can be seen in his relatively static, friezelike early painting, Young Spartans Exercising (ca. 1860, National Gallery, London), done while he was still in his twenties. Yet despite the title, and the suggestion of classical drapery on some of the figures in the background, there is little that places the subject of this painting in ancient Greece. Indeed, it has been noted that the young girls have the snub noses and immature bodies of "Montmartre types," the forerunners of the dancers Degas painted so often throughout his career."
– Ruth Schenkel, from a biographical essay issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004
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| Edgar Degas Study for Alexander and Bucephalus ca. 1859-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Alexander and Bucephalus 1861-62 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Edgar Degas Studies for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Study for Semiramis building Babylon ca. 1860-61 drawing, with pastel Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Edgar Degas Semiramis building Babylon 1861 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |