Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005908Study of a Male Nude
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Rome. 1857"; verso, center, in graphite: "no. 3 / Ph2259 / 4"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, in red and stamp (Lugt 657) verso, center, in red]; sold, 4th Degas estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2–4, 1919, lot 101c. M. Viand. Sold, Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to David Daniels, New York, 1964. Sold, Christie’s, New York, May 11, 1995, lot 304, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
St. Louis City Art Museum, "Drawings by Degas," Jan. 20–Feb. 26, 1967, p. 35, cat. 12. Dayton Art Institute, "French Artists in Italy 1600-1900," Oct. 15–Nov. 28, 1971, cat. 52. University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Strictly Academic," Mar. 30–Apr. 24, 1974, p. 29, cat. 8. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist," June 20–Sept. 1, 1974, cat. 63. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 103, cat. 68 (ill.). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Degas and the Nude", Oct. 9, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012, p. 20, 21, fig. 15. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Theodore Reff, “New Light on Degas’s Copies,” Burlington Magazine, 106, 735 (June 1964), p. 251, no. 18. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 103, cat. 68 (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
- 1858
- Medium
- Graphite on pink wove paper with pink and blue fibers, altered to buff
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 28.1 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.924
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