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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Bathers
    Edgar Degas. The Bathers, 1885/95. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003927

    The Bathers

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) lower left in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 4-5, 1918, First Degas estate sale, lot 211 (ill), to Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [Rich 1955]; Ambroise Vollard, until at least 1936 [Paris 1936]. Given by Nathan Cummings, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Vollard, "Degas," 1936. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection," June 28-September 11, 1970, pp. 22-23, cat. 10 (ill.); traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 1-September 7, 1971. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Major Works From the Collection of Nathan Cummings," October 20-December 9, 1973, pp. 16-17, cat. 8 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 188-191, cat. 91 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. London, England, The National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," May 22-August 26, 1996, pp. 85, 146, 276, 278-279 (ill.), and 304, cat. 88, cat. by Richard Kendall; 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. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 15, 1997-March 27, 2000. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, pp. 66, 210 ,211, fig. 235, cat. by George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey, et.al. Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Instititute, "Renoir: The Body, The Senses", June 7 - September 19, 2019. Traveled to Fort Worth TX, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 27, 2019 - January 26, 2020, fig. 82a, cat. 44 (ill.), pp. 92, 98, 197, cat. by Esther Bell and George T. M. Shackelford.

    Publications

    P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre 3 (Paris, 1946), no. 1079 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, "Bathers by Edgar Degas," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 49:4 (November 15, 1955), pp. 68-70 (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 121. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 268 and 280 (ill.). Fiorella Minervino and Franco Russoli, L’Opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 1003 (ill.). Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1971), p. 122d. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 45, no. 2G8. J. Patrice Marandel, The Art Institute of Chicago: Favorite Impressionist Paintings (New York, 1979), p. 38 (ill.). Degas, exh. cat. (Paris, 1988), p. 556, fig. 312. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 62-65, 104 (ill.), and 111, pl. 33. "A great artist's advice: do not miss this Degas," The Independent (May 22, 1996), p. 10. Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1997).

    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
    1885/95
    Medium
    Pastel and charcoal on tan wove paper
    Dimensions
    113.4 × 115.7 cm (44 11/16 × 45 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Nathan Cummings
    Accession no.
    1955.495

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