Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

1. Artist’s studio until his death in 1917 [according to Lafond 1919]; sold at second sale of the “Atelier Degas,” Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, no. 7, to the artist’s brother, René de Gas [according to letter from Charles Durand-Ruel to Richard Brettell, dated May 10, 1983; copy in curatorial file]; René de Gas (died 1921); his estate, until 1927 [according to letter cited above]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 10, 1927, no. 76, to Durand-Ruel, Paris [according to annotated sale catalogue, Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles; copy in curatorial file]; Durand-Ruel, Paris, from 1927 to 1950; sold to Jean d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc, Paris, 1950 [according to letter from Charles Durand-Ruel cited above. Costemore d’Arc was married to Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel]; Jean d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc, Paris, until at least 1952 [lent by him to Amsterdam 1952]. Sam Salz, New York, by 1960; sold to the Art Institute, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, André J. Seligmann, Réhabilitation du Sujet, November 17-December 9, 1934, cat. no. 83.
• Bern, Kunstmuseum, Degas, November 25, 1951-January 13, 1952, cat. no. 2.
• Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Edgar Degas, 1952, cat. no. 5.
• Paris, Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Degas dans les collections françaises, June 9-26, 1955, cat. no. 9.
• Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Edgar Degas: 1834-1917, June 9-October 1, 1960, cat. no. 2.
• Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Exposition Degas, September 23, 1976-November 3, 1976; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, November 7-December 10, 1976; Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, December 18, 1976-January 16, 1977, cat. no. 4.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 19-September 23, 1984, cat. no. 9.
• Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 16; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
• Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, cat. 51; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Origins of Impressionism, September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Forma: El ideal clásico en el arte moderno, October 9, 2001-January 13, 2002, cat. no. 13.
• London, National Gallery, Art in the Making: Degas, November 10, 2004-January 30, 2005, no cat. no.
• São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Degas: o universo de um artista, May 17–August 20, 2006, no cat. no.

• Paul Lafond, Degas, vol. 2 (Paris: H. Floury, 1919), pp. 2, 4 (ill.).
• P[aul]-A[ndré] Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. 2 (Paris: Paul Brame et C. M. de Hauke, 1946), pp. 34-5, no. 71 (ill.).
• John Maxon, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Annual Report, 1960-1961 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 10-12.
• Phoebe Pool, “The History Pictures of Edgar Degas and their background,” Apollo 80, 32 (1964), p. 308, fig. 6.
• John Maxon, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84, 55 (1966), pp. 216, 220, fig. 8.
• William M. Ittman, Jr., “A Drawing by Edgar Degas for the Petites Filles Spartiates Provoquant des Garçons,” The Register of the Museum of Art: The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 3, 7 (1966), pp. 38-49, fig. b.
• Devin Burnell, “Degas and His ‘Young Spartans Exercising,’” Museum Studies 4, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), pp. 49-65, fig. 1.
• Martin Davies, National Gallery Catalogues. French School: Early 19th century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, etc. (London: National Gallery, 1970), pp. 48-9.
• Franco Russoli, L’opera completa di Degas (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1970), p. 90, fig. 89.
• Roy McMullen, Degas: His Life, Times, and Work (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), p. 103-6.
• Maurice Guillaud, Degas: form and space (Paris; New York: Centre culturel du Marais, [1984]), p. 19.
• Carol Salus, “Degas’ Young Spartans Exercising,” Art Bulletin 67 (1985), p. 503, n. 14.

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

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Sulking

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Dancers Practicing at the Barre

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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

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The Collector of Prints

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The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

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The Artist's Cousin, Probably Mrs. William Bell (Mathilde Musson, 1841–1878)

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The Rehearsal Onstage

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