Après le bain (Femme nue)

細節

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Après le bain (Femme nue)
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal on buff paper laid down on board
18¾ x 17¼ in. (47.6 x 43.8 cm.)

來源

Studio of the artist, Second Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 273.

出版

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 648 (listed as a related drawing under no. 1122).

拍品專文

This drawing is probably a preparatory study for a larger pastel of this pose, Après le bain (circa 1892; Lemoisne, no. 1122; coll. Museum of Modern Art, Moscow). There is a second study on a larger sheet (Second studio sale, lot 300), although the image of the figure is about the same size as it is in the present drawing. Degas often employed tracing to transfer imagery from one sheet to another as he developed his subjects in series (see lot 126). It is not clear which of these two preparatory drawings is the initial study. There is also a transfer impression of this subject that was probably made from one of the drawings. This shows the image in reverse, which the artist reworked with pastel (Lemoisne, no. 1122; Fourth studio sale, lot 321).