After the Bath, ca. 1900

  • Edgar Degas, French, 1834-1917

Charcoal, brown pastel, and white chalk (?) on tan tracing paper completely attached to a paperboard

  • Sheet: 26 5/8 × 16 5/8 inches (67.6 × 42.2 cm) Mount: 26 3/4 × 17 inches (67.9 × 43.2 cm)
  • 36 1/8 × 26 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (91.8 × 67.9 × 2.9 cm)

Gift of Durand-Ruel

37.58

Stamp, in red ink, lower left: degas

Inscribed, on pink label, verso of mount: Degas no. 4686 | Femme s'essuyant | Dessin au fusain | n 3 [underlined in black ink] (from notes by ES found in file)

1918, Edgar Degas sale (Paris, France) sale no. 2

Durand-Ruel (Paris, France)

1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgas Degas. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. 1918, second sale, no. 292 (as Femme s'essuyant). Greaver, Harry. Impressionists in Michigan. Kalamazoo, MI. Reff, Theodore. "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 53, 1 (1974): pp. 42-43.

Edgar Degas, After the Bath, ca. 1900, charcoal, brown pastel, and white chalk (?) on tan tracing paper completely attached to a paperboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Durand-Ruel, 37.58.