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The Young Spartans

The Young Spartans

Oil on canvas, 1860

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The Young Spartans was painted before the Impressionist movement began. History painting had enormous prestige in the 19th century, and the young Degas evidently felt that he must try to make his name with big, ambitious pictures.

Of the five he finished between 1859 and 1865, this painting is probably the best. The subject and composition are fairly conventional. The Spartans were the most disciplined and militaristic of the ancient Greeks, and both boys and girls were brought up to be hard and strong.

Here, the girls are challenging the boys to a wrestling match, while the mothers and Lycurgus, the legendary lawgiver who created the Spartan way of life, look on. But in certain respects Degas is already going his own way, leaving out the usual ‘classical’ trappings and making his contestants true adolescents, gawky and self-conscious, rather than idealized figures.

Ghostly lines, especially among the girls’ legs – show how Degas altered the painting over the years. He remained curiously fond of it, proposing some twenty years later to exhibit it beside his modern pictures in the 1880 Impressionist Exhibition.

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