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    After the Bath (Woman Drying Her Feet)
    Edgar Degas. After the Bath (Woman Drying Her Feet), c. 1900. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003013

    After the Bath (Woman Drying Her Feet)

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, lot 307 (ill.). Durand-Ruel, New York, by February 19, 1939 [Oakland, Calif. 1939]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II, 1945.

    Exhibition history

    Oakland, Calif., Mills College Art Gallery, "European Master Drawings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," February 19-March 29, 1939, cat. 23; traveled to the Seattle Art Museum, April 5-May 7, 1939. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, pp. 11-12, cat. 11, pl. XIX, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind. Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Loan Exhibitions of Drawings and Pastels by Edgar Degas," 1947, cat. 1. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 105. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 559 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 126-127, cat. 60 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 186-187, cat. 90 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Degas," 1988, p. 602, cat. 388 (ill.); only traveled to the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa, June 16-August 28, 1988, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 27, 1988-January 8, 1989. London, The National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," May 22-August 26, 1996, pp. 84, 188, 192-193, and 298, cat. 15 (ill.), cat. by Richard Kendall; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996-January 5, 1997. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, pp. 188, 191, 213 fig. 204, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et.al.; traveled to Paris, Musée d'Orsay, March 12 - July 5, 2012.

    Publications

    Carl O. Schniewind, Drawings Old & New (Chicago, 1946), pp. 11, no. 11. Ira Maskowitz, Great Drawings of all Time 3 (New York, 1962), no. 791 (ill). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 45, no. 2G9. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 63, 103 (ill.), and 111, pl. 32.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    c. 1900
    Medium
    Charcoal, charcoal wash, and touches of red and yellow and pale blue pastel, with stumping and erasing, on buff wove tracing paper, pieced and laid down on sulphite board
    Dimensions
    57 × 40.8 cm (22 1/2 × 16 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    charcoal
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
    Accession no.
    1945.34

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