©Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Naked woman drying herself

[Femme nue s’essuyant]

MS : 1045
Museum
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Texas - Etats-Unis
Inv. 56.21

The Artwork
Dimensions
78 × 83 cm - 30 11/16 × 32 11/16 in.
Period
Circa 1900
Medium
Pastel et fusain
Support
Papier-calque
Stamp
Vente Degas (en bas à gauche)
Lemoisne
IV-1423 bis, p. 817

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas – Vente Degas, 1918, II, n° 70 (repr.) – Nunès et Fiquet, Paris – Mme Robert Lee Blaffer, Houston – Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956 [Don Sara Lee Blaffer].

Exhibitions

Paris, Ottawa, New York, 1988-1989, Degas, n° 382, repr. p. 596 [Paris et Ottawa]- Londres, Chicago, 1996-1997, Degas : Beyond Impressionism, cat. 65, repr. p. 250 -Atlanta, Minneapolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, cat. 74, repr. p. 227 -  Boston, Paris, 2011-2012, Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude, cat. 258, repr. p. 249 et p. 244 (Détail) [Ed. française] - Melbourne, Houston, 2016-2017, Degas : A New Vision, (n.n.), repr. p. 160 - Le Cannet, musée Bonnard, 2019, III. 63, repr. p. 60.

Bibliography

Lemoisne, 1946-1949, IV, n° 1423 bis, repr. p. 817 - Shapiro, 1982, p. 12-16, fig. 4 - The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984, p. 184 - Kendall, Cat. exp. Londres, Chicago, 1996-1997, Degas : Beyond Impressionism, cat. 65, repr. p. 250 - Mary Morton, Cat. exp. Atlanta, Minneapolis, 2000-2001, Degas and America. The Early Collectors, cat. 74, repr. p. 227 - Rey, Roquebert, Shackelford, Boston, Paris, 2011, 2012, Degas et le nu/Degas and the Nude, fig. 239, repr. p. 217 [Ed. anglaise].

Last updated : 27/06/2026

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