Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005909After the Bath
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, center on mount, in blue pencil: "1552 / Ph 788"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, recto, in red]; sold, 2nd Degas estate sale [stamp (Lugt 657) verso on mount, in red], Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 6–8, 1918, lot 300. Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, by 2005; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
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. 117, cat. 80 (ill.).
Publications
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. 3 (P. Brame et C.M. De Hauke, 1946), p. 648, no. 1122. 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. 117, cat. 80 (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
- c. 1900
- Medium
- Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping and manipulation with a wetted brush, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove card
- Dimensions
- 63.1 × 46.2 cm (24 7/8 × 18 1/4 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.
- 2012.77
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