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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Woman at Her Toilette
    Edgar Degas. Woman at Her Toilette, 1900/05. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002434

    Woman at Her Toilette

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower left, in red: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 6-8, 1918, lot 127. Probably sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Apr. 1920 [according to note on AIC "yellow sheet"; on loan to the AIC from Nov. 15, 1920]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "Degas," 1937, cat. 165, pl. 27. Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, "Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," November 4-December 13, 1937. Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 184-185, cat. 89 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. London, National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," May 22-August 26, 1996, pp. 251 and 302, cat. 66 (ill.), cat. by Richard Kendall; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996-January 5, 1997. Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013.

    Publications

    J. B. Manson, Life and Works of Edgar Degas (London, 1927), p. 47. George Slocombe, "Artist and Misanthrope," Coronet 3 (April 1938), p. 21 (ill.). P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre 3 (Paris, 1946), p. 816-817, no. 1426 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas (New York, 1951), pp. 124-125 (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 122 and 285 (ill.). El Mundo de los Museos, The Art Institute of Chicago (Madrid, 1967), p. 57 (ill.). Alfred Werner, Degas: Pastels (New York, 1968), p. 82, no. 32 (ill.). William Gaunt, Impressionism: A Visual History (New York, 1970), pp. 188-189, pl. 67. Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1971), p. 28. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 45-46, no. 2G10. Michael Edward Shapiro, "Three Late Works by Edgar Degas," Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 8 (1982), pp. 12-16 (ill.). Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1986), p. 70, fig. 3-7. Degas, exh. cat. (Paris, 1988), p. 597, fig. 333. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 65, 67 (ill. detail), 105 (ill.), and 111, pl. 34. Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, exh. cat. (Memphis, 2002), pp. 45-46, fig. 11. George T.M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et. al. " Degas and The Nude" (Boston, 2011-2012), pp. 218-219, fig. 241 Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing (Lawrence King Ltd., 1991), p. 115 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1900/05
    Medium
    Pastel on tracing paper
    Dimensions
    75 × 72.5 cm (29 9/16 × 28 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1937.1033

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