- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.262
- People
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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
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- 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
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- stamp: l.l.: Vente signature stamp [L. 658] in red
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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