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Title:Bather Sponging Her Knee
Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Date:ca. 1883–84
Medium:Charcoal, pastel, and gray wash on off-white laid paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 12 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (30.8 x 24.8cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:19.51.3
Standing Bather
Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower right with the mark of the Degas esate sale (Lugt 658) Verso, stamped in red ink, upper right with the mark of the Degas atelier (Lugt 657); numbered in blue chalk, upper right: 1830 [underlined]; in blue chalk, lower right: Ph 1218 [double underlined]; numbered in black chalk, lower center: 2
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,Degas Sale II,1918,lot.222.1&2(Fr2,700) to MMA2eme vente Degas, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, no. 222, repr.
The Grolier Club. "Prints, Drawings, and Bronzes: by Degas," January 26, 1922–February 28, 1922.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas in the Metropolitan," February 26–September 4, 1977.
Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Degas," February 9–May 16, 1988.
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Degas," June 16–August 28, 1988.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Degas," September 27, 1988–January 8, 1989.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Private Collection of Edgar Degas," October 1, 1997–January 11, 1998.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 4, 2005–January 9, 2006.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Degas and the Nude," October 9, 2011–February 5, 2012.
Melbourne. NGV International. "Degas: A New Vision," June 24–September 18, 2016.
Bryson Burroughs B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin" Drawings by Degas. 14, May 1919.
Bryson Burroughs "Drawings by Degas." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 5, New York, May 1919, pp. 116-117.
James Bolivar Manson The Life and Work of Edgar Degas. London, 1927, p. 48.
Charles S. Moffett Degas in the Metropolitan. Ex. cat., February 26-September 4, 1977: a complete checklist of works by Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977, cat. no. 40.
Philippe Brame, Theodore Reff Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement. New York, 1984, cat. no. 112, pp. 122-123, ill.
Philippe Brame, Theodore Reff Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement. Garland, New York, 1984.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Douglas Druick, Henri Loyrette, Michael Pantazzi, Gary Tinterow Degas. Ex. cat.: Paris, Ottawa, MMA, 1988-1989. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, National Museums of Canada, New York and Ottawa, 1988-89, cat. no. 254, ill.
Gary Tinterow, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988.
Ann Dumas, Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Gary Tinterow The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, fig. no. 374, ill.
Susan Alyson Stein, Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.
George T. M. Shackelford, Xavier Rey Degas and the Nude. Exh. cat., Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012 ; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris March 12-July 1. Boston, 2012, fig. no. 127, pp. 115, 117, 185-186, 225, ill.
Henri Loyrette, National Gallery of Victoria Degas: A New Vision. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016, pp. 153, 276, ill.
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