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After the Bath

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas

French, 1834–1917

After the Bath

c. 1891–92

Medium charcoal with stumping on beige wove paper
Dimensions 14 x 9 3/4 in. (35.5 x 24.8 cm)
Object Number 1955.1408
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, After the Bath, c. 1891–92, charcoal with stumping on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1408

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Ten: Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. London: Art Council of Great Britain.. The Private Degas. Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester, Jan. 17-Feb. 28, 1987; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, March 14-May 3, 1987. Cat. by Richard Thomson. Fernandez, Rafael, and Alexandra R. Murphy. Degas in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1987. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. R. F. C.. "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium, 132: 787.. (July 1960).. Robert B. Hale.. Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters.. 1977.. Eduard Hüttinger.. Degas.. New York: Crown Publisher.. 1988.. . "Le opere di Degas alla collezione Clark.". Emporium.. July 1960.:pp. 40-41.. Howard Forsberg.. An Approach to Figure Painting.. Northlight Publ.. 1979.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Richard Thomson.. Degas: The Nudes.. London: Thames & Hudson.. Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. Brettell, Richard et al. L'impressionnisme, de France et d'Amérique: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas. Musée Fabre de Montpellier, June 2- September 30, 2007; Musée de Grenoble, October 20, 2007- January 20, 2008. Versailles: Artlys; Montpellier: Musée Fabre; Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble. 2007. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Cowling, Elizabeth, and Richard Kendall. Picasso Looks at Degas. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2010.

Provenance

The artist (d. 1917, third studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7–9 Apr. 1919 [L. 657 and L. 658], no. 327a, ill., as Femme nue s’essuyant, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark; Robert Sterling Clark (1919–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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