Title: Youth in an Attitude of Defense
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1859–60
Artist:  Edgar Degas 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pencil on buff laid paper
Dimensions: 12 15/16 × 8 1/4 in. (32.8 × 21 cm)
Framed: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Male Nudes