Reading after the Bath (La toilette, lecture après le bain)
Currently on view
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917), c. 1879-1883
monotype in black on laid paper, 35.3 cm x 51.2 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Mondriaan Fund and the Rembrandt Association)
What is it?
What can you see?
Context
- Object number
- p2759S2014
- Edition
- second impression known, the so-called "fantôme"
- Dimensions
- 35.3 cm x 51.2 cm, 27.7 cm x 37.9 cm, 27.7 cm x 37.9 cm
- Catalogue raisonné
- Adhémar & Cachin 166,Stogdon 24
- printmaker
- Edgar Degas
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Mondriaan Fund and the Rembrandt Association)
- number
- No. 249. / T.
- stamp
- ATELIER ED. DEGAS , Lugt no. 657
- stamp
- number
- 1436
- number
- 43363 36
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