Youth with Arms Upraised

A standing nude male figure stretches both arms above his head, legs splayed in a wide stance, his head tilted down. Soft black chalk over pencil models the torso and limbs against a pale beige sheet, with faint outlines suggesting the body's contours and a red signature at lower left.

Look closer: A red signature mark, likely the artist's, sits in the lower left corner.

Artist

Edgar Degas

Date

1859–60 or 1861–62

Medium

Black chalk over pencil on fine beige paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2487 × 3730 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975