Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005910The Bath
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, center, in blue pencil: "1238"
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658) recto, lower left, in black]; sold, 2nd Degas estate sale [stamp (Lugt 657) verso, center, in red], Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dec. 11–13, 1918, lot 362, to Gustave Pellet (1859–1919), Paris [Lemoisne 1946]; his son-in-law, Maurice Exsteens (1887–1962), Paris, by 1946 [Lemoisne 1946]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1997, lot 119 (as pastel over monotype), to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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. 126, cat. 87 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy," June 22-Sept. 29, 2013, no cat. 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
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. 3 (P. Brame et C.M. De Hauke, 1946), pp. 416–17, no. 731 (as pastel over monotype). 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. 126, cat. 87 (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
- 1892/95
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 × 32.4 cm (19 1/8 × 12 13/16 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.
- 2013.925
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