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Summary

Edgar Degas : Young Spartans Exercising wikidata:Q387377 reasonator:Q387377
Artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) wikidata:Q46373 s:fr:Auteur:Edgar Degas q:en:Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Alternative names
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
Description French painter, sculptor, poet, printmaker, photographer and drawer
Date of birth/death 19 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work location
Paris ; Belgium ; Florence ; London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q46373
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Title
Young Spartans exercising
title QS:P1476,en:"Young Spartans exercising"
label QS:Len,"Young Spartans exercising"
label QS:Les,"Los jóvenes espartanos que ejercen"
label QS:Lde,"Junge Spartaner üben"
label QS:Lnl,"Jonge Spartanen trainen"
label QS:Lfr,"Jeunes Spartiates s'exerçant à la lutte"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
After Plutarch, who tells about the ancient Spartan legislator Lycurgus. Lycurgus urged the Spartan girls to engage in wrestling. Here they urge the boys to fight.
Date circa 1860
date QS:P571,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 109.5 cm (43.1 in); width: 155 cm (61 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,109.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,155U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
room 44
Accession number
NG3860
Exhibition history
Credit line 1924: purchased from Courtauld Fund
Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

Degas
References
Source/Photographer National Gallery, London - online collection

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