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    The Morning Bath
    Edgar Degas. The Morning Bath, 1887/90. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003468

    The Morning Bath

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, in blue pastel: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Sold by the artist to Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, December 16, 1895 [Ottawa 1988]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer I, Chicago, June 20, 1896 [Ottawa 1988]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1933, p. 42, cat. 287. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 1-November 1, 1934, p. 35, cat. 203. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, "Degas," November 7-December 7, 1936, pp. 33-34 and 95, cat. 43 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 160-162, cat. 76 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Degas Retrospective," June 16-August 28, 1988, pp. 526-527, cat. 320 (ill.). London, The National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," May 22-August 26, 1996, p. 271, cat. 83 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996-January 5, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. Atlanta, High Museum of Art, "Degas & America: The Early Collectors," February 28-May 27, 2001. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, pp. 186, 187, 213 fig. 198, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et.al.

    Publications

    J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927), p. 47. Daniel Catton Rich, "A Family Portrait by Degas," The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 23:8 (November 1929), p. 127 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, "Franzoeische Impressionisten im Art Institute ze Chicago," Pantheon 11 (March 1933), p. 76 (ill.). George Slocombe, "Artist as Misanthrope," Coronet 3:6 (April 1,1938), p. 19 (ill.). Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre 3 (Paris, 1946), p. 598, no. 1028 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas (New York, 1951), p. 116. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 121. Frederick A. Sweet, "Great Chicago Collectors," Apollo LXXXIV (September, 1966), pp. 193 and 195. Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 946 (ill.). Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1971), p. 122D. Alice Bellony-Rewald, The Lost World of the Impressionists (London, 1976), p. 196 (ill.). Alfred Werner, Degas Pastels (New York, 1977), p. 74, no. 28 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 45, no. 2G7. Eunice Lipton, "Degas' Bathers: The Case for Realism," Arts Magazine 54: 9 (May 1980), p. 94. Keith Roberts, Degas (Oxford, 1982), p. 43, no. 33 (ill.). Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III (New York, 1984), pp. 598-599, no. 1028 (ill.). Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas: Life and Work (New York, 1986), p. 238. Eunice Lipton, Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life (Berkeley, Calif., 1986), pp. 165, 167, fig. 107, and p. 174,. Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 96, 97, 98, and 117 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 56-57, 59 (ill. detail), 101 (ill.), and 110, pl. 30. Belinda Thomson, Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception (New York, 2000), pp. 243-244 (ill.). Degas & America: The Early Collectors, exh. cat. (High Museum of Art, 2000). Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, exh. cat. (Memphis, 2002), p. 45, fig. 9. Charlotte Bordeaux, The Letters of Pauline Palmer (2005). Marni Kessler, Sheer Material Presence: The Veil in Late 19th Century French Visual Culture (Minnesota, 2006).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1887/90
    Medium
    Pastel on off-white laid paper mounted on board
    Dimensions
    70.6 × 43.3 cm (27 13/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.422

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