
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005806Breakfast after the Bath
by Edgar Degas
Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, Degas sale, lot 176. Charles Comiot (died 1945), Paris, by June 1939 [Paris 1939]. Nathan Cummings (died 1985), Chicago, by 1965 [Minneapolis 1965]. Allan H. Cummings, Palm Beach, Fl., to Nov. 1987; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Nov. 11, 1987, lot 33, to the Sara Lee Corporation; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie André Weil, "Degas, peintre du mouvement," June 9-30, 1939, p. 17, cat. 47. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Paintings from the Cummings Collection," January 14-March 7, 1965. Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, "Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist," April 1-May 15, 1994, p. 42, cat. 8 (ill.); traveled to the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss., May 29-July 31, 1994, and the Dayton Institute of Art, August 12-October 9, 1994. Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, "The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy," 1997-1998. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation," March 15-May 28, 2000, pp. 28-31, cat. 7 (ill.); traveled to the Singapore Museum of Art, April 1-May 30, 1999, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, June 11-August 22, 1999, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, September 10-November 7, 1999, and The Portland Art Museum, November 19 1999-January 25, 2000.
Publications
Henry Hertz, "Degas, Coloriste," L'Amour de l'Art (March 1924), p. 73 (ill.). Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre III (Paris, 1946), pp. 700-701, no. 1205 (ill.). Richard R. Brettell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of the Sara Lee Corporation (New York, 1986), pp. 52-55 (ill.). Richard R. Brettell, Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation (New Haven, 1999), pp. 28-31, no. 7 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 223 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
- Date
- 1895/98
- Medium
- Pastel on paper, laid down on board
- Dimensions
- 92 × 81 cm (36 1/4 × 31 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
- Accession no.
- 1999.365
More by Edgar Degas in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00005806
Powered by Art Trackers



