A nude woman standing in a bath tub leaning forward
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Bold charcoal lines on a white background show a nude woman standing in a was tub, facing toward the viewer. Leaning forward and holding on to one edge of the tub with her left hand, she balances her right foot on the opposite edge and scrubs it with a brush in her right hand. Strong light illuminates her right side and her head as well as the side of the tub. In the foreground, a pile of clothing lies in a heap.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.262
People
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French (Paris, France 1834 - 1917 Paris, France)
Title
A Nude Figure Bathing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1892-1895
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296310

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on white wove paper
Dimensions
65 x 50 cm (25 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
frame: 73 x 57.8 x 3.2 cm (28 3/4 x 22 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Atelier Degas (L. 658), sale [Vente II, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 11-13, 1918, no. 342]. [Marcel Bing, Paris]. [Sadajiro Yamanaka, New York] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.262
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Henri Rivière, ed., Les Dessins de Degas, Demotte (Paris, France, 1922 - 1923), pl. 98
  • Degas, 1834-1917, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1936), no. 88, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 678, fig. 354
  • William G. Constable, The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1946), no. 18
  • Jakob Rosenberg, Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1959), pp. xxiii, 114; repr. no. 223
  • Jean Leymarie, Dessins de la période impressionniste de Manet à Renoir, Skira (Geneva, Switzerland, 1969), p. 54, repr. p. 56
  • Degas' drawings, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1973), pl. 87
  • Jakob Rosenberg, Great Draughtsmen from Pisanello to Picasso [rev. ed.], Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1974), p. 154, fig. 287
  • Denis Rouart, Degas in Search of His Technique, Skira Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1988), repr. p. 125
  • Ann Dumas and David A. Brenneman, Degas and America: The Early Collectors, exh. cat., High Museum of Art/MInneapolis Institute of Arts/Rizzoli (New York, NY, 2001), cat. no. 64, repr. (color); also p. 26
  • Cate McQuaid, "Degas, Intimately", The Boston Globe (August 12, 2005), Weekend section, repr.
  • 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. 47, fig. 74, pp. 29, 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. 342, repr.
  • George T.M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, Degas and the Nude, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2011), p. 188, repr. p. 190 as fig. 201, p. 228

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Great Modern French Drawings, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum, Brooklyn, 01/01/1939 - 03/12/1939
  • Edgar Degas Bronzes, Drawings, Pastels, Buchholz Gallery, New York, 01/03/1945 - 01/27/1945
  • The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/01/1946 - 02/03/1946
  • 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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