After the Bath (large version)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
1891–92
Medium
Lithograph, transfer, and crayon in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.3 × 31.4 cm (11 15/16 × 12 3/8 in.); Sheet: 43 × 48.6 cm (16 15/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13639
About the Artist
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1834–1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, born on July 19, 1834, in Paris to a prosperous banking family, was the eldest of five children. His mother, Célestine Musson, a Creole from New Orleans whose father Germain Musson had roots in Haiti, died when Degas was thirteen, leaving his father Augustin and unmarried uncles to guide him. Educated at the elite Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he earned a baccalauréat in...