- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.258
- People
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
- Title
- After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1893-1898
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296331
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Charcoal on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 80.6 x 109.2 cm (31 3/4 x 43 in.)
frame: 97.2 x 126 x 5.1 cm (38 1/4 x 49 5/8 x 2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red
- Provenance
- Atelier Degas (L. 257, 658), sale [Vente II, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, no. 267]. [Sadajiro Yamanaka, New York] to; Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.258
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1936), no. 86, repr.
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 677, fig. 353
Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 27
Allene Talmey, "The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard", Vogue, Conde Nast (New York, July 15, 1947), 15 July, pp. 44-49, 78-80, repr. p. 47
Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), p. 32, pl. 28
Jon Garelick, "Abstract Thoughts: The Transitional and Transcendent Art of Edgar Degas at the Sackler Museum", The Boston Phoenix (August 5 2005), p. 18, p. 18, repr.
Holland Cotter, "Degas, Director: An Easel Becomes a Stage", The New York Times (August 5 2005), pp. B25, B27, repr. p. B27
Hilton Kramer, "Loner, Misfit Degas: Lover of Bathers was Never Impressionist", The New York Observer (September 7 2005)
Christopher Reed, "Mad for Degas", Harvard Magazine (July 2005 - August 2005), vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 40-45, p. 43, ill.
Marjorie B. Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at Harvard, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge and New Haven, 2005), cat. no. 43, fig. 9 (color), pp. 29, 64, 70 note 11
Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier 2e vente, December 11-13, 1918, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, December 11 - December 13, 1918), no. 267
George T.M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, Degas and the Nude, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2011), repr. p. 178 as fig. 187, p. 228
- Exhibition History
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Degas, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/09/1931 - 05/30/1931
Degas, 1834-1917, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 11/01/1936 - 11/30/1936
Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
Unidentified Exhibition, Skidmore College, 1942, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, 02/05/1942 - 02/26/1942
Edgar Degas Bronzes, Drawings, Pastels, Buchholz Gallery, New York, 01/03/1945 - 01/27/1945
Drawings by Degas, Farnsworth Art Museum (now Davis Museum and Cultural Center), Wellesley, 02/16/1946 - 03/10/1946
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture by Edgar Degas, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 10/16/1955 - 11/13/1955
Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
Degas at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2005 - 11/27/2005
Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/09/2011 - 02/05/2012
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