{"type":"artobject","objectid":2774,"objectnumber":"x1943-136","sortnumber":"1943  136x","displaytitle":"Bather (Standing Female Nude)","department":"Prints and Drawings","classification":"Drawings","datebegin":1891,"dateend":1901,"datecomputed":1896,"daterange":"A.D. 1850-1900","displaydate":"ca. 1896","medium":"Charcoal and pastel","dimensions":"47 × 32 cm (18 1/2 × 12 5/8 in.)\r\nframe: 74.9 × 58.7 × 4.1 cm (29 1/2 × 23 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.","markings":null,"inscribed":"in graphite, on verso, upper left: no2\r\nin blue crayon, on verso center: 1417 [or possibly1477 / 1417 / 14-17] | Pb 818","signed":"Stamped, lower right: Degas","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1943-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":5560,"displayname":"Edgar Degas","displaydate":"1834–1917; born and died Paris, France","datebegin":1834,"dateend":1917,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Edgar Degas, 1834–1917; born and died Paris, France","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This expressive drawing on blue-green paper is one in a series of pastel figure studies Degas made in preparation for an enormous composition depicting a group of nude women bathing in a verdant landscape setting. A surviving underdrawing for this unfinished work suggests that Degas intended to create a modern rendition of a classical myth related in Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses</em>, in which the goddess Diana is furious to discover that Jupiter has conceived a child with the nymph Callisto, who is seen here fleeing, covering her pregnant belly in shame.","remarks":"K6 rotation September 2018 Degas "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Degas Atelier; Bernheim Jeune; Weyhe","remarks":"moved from provenance field"}],"media":[{"id":48381,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1943-136-1","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Bruce White Photography"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<P>George T. M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, <EM>Degas and the nude, </EM>(Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2011).</P>","citation":"<P>George T. M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, <EM>Degas and the nude, </EM>(Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2011).</P>","date":2011,"id":1287,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/727701616"},{"boilertext":"Jean Sutherland Boggs, \"Degas at the museum: works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and John G. Johnson collection\", <EM>Bulletin (Philadelphia Museum of Art)</EM> 81, no. 346/347, (Spring/Summer, 1985): p. 2-48.","citation":"Jean Sutherland Boggs, \"Degas at the museum: works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and John G. Johnson collection\", <EM>Bulletin (Philadelphia Museum of Art)</EM> 81, no. 346/347, (Spring/Summer, 1985): p. 2-48., p. 29 (illus.)","date":1985,"id":5308,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3795436"},{"boilertext":"Dominique H. Vasseur and&nbsp;Karen Wilkin, <EM>Edgar Degas: the many dimensions of a master French impressionist: an exhibition</EM>, (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1994).","citation":"Dominique H. Vasseur and&nbsp;Karen Wilkin, <EM>Edgar Degas: the many dimensions of a master French impressionist: an exhibition</EM>, (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1994)., cat. no. 19; p. 54 (color illus.)","date":1994,"id":5309,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/30591245"},{"boilertext":"Richard Kendall, <EM>Degas: beyond impressionism</EM>, (London: National Gallery Publications in association with the Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven, Ct: distributed by Yale University Press, 1996).","citation":"Richard Kendall, <EM>Degas: beyond impressionism</EM>, (London: National Gallery Publications in association with the Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven, Ct: distributed by Yale University Press, 1996)., cat. no. 80; p. 268 (illus.)","date":1996,"id":5310,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/34907391"},{"boilertext":"Ann Dumas, <EM>Degas and America: the early collectors</EM>, (Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Mn: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2000).","citation":"Ann Dumas, <EM>Degas and America: the early collectors</EM>, (Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Mn: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2000).","date":2000,"id":5311,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/44969408"},{"boilertext":"Judy Collischan, <EM>End papers: drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000: January 30-April 23, 2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York</EM>, (Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2000).","citation":"Judy Collischan, <EM>End papers: drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000: January 30-April 23, 2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York</EM>, (Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 2000).","date":2000,"id":5312,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/49365835"},{"boilertext":"Kendall, Richard and Griselda Pollock, eds., <EM>Dealing with Degas: representations of women and the politics of vIsion</EM>, (London: Universe,&nbsp;1992).","citation":"Kendall, Richard and Griselda Pollock, eds., <EM>Dealing with Degas: representations of women and the politics of vIsion</EM>, (London: Universe,&nbsp;1992)., p. 155","date":1992,"id":1368,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/24589997"},{"boilertext":"Jean Sutherland Boggs, <EM>Degas: [an exhibition held at the] Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989</EM>, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988).","citation":"Jean Sutherland Boggs, <EM>Degas: [an exhibition held at the] Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989</EM>, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1988)., p. 558, no. 348 (color illus.)","date":1988,"id":1602,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/369305144"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1667,"citation":"Degas: A New Vision, National Gallery of Victoria (June 24–September 18, 2016); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 16, 2016–January 16, 2017)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2016-06-24","enddate":"2017-01-16","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1667"},{"exhibitionid":732,"citation":"Degas (Tuesday, February 09, 1988 - Sunday, January 08, 1989)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1988-02-09","enddate":"1989-01-08","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/732"},{"exhibitionid":1046,"citation":"Nineteenth-Century Pastels, Drawings, Watercolors (Complement to Cezanne Exhibition) (Saturday, February 01, 1992 - Sunday, April 05, 1992)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1992-02-01","enddate":"1992-04-05","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1046"},{"exhibitionid":1462,"citation":"Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts Boston (October 09, 2011- February 5, 2012); Musee d'Orsay (March 13, 2012- July 1, 2012)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2011-10-09","enddate":"2012-07-01","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1462"}],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2031609,"term":"French","aatid":300111188,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2188681,"term":"charcoal drawings","aatid":null,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2094144,"term":"bathers","aatid":300188634,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055672,"term":"nudes","aatid":300189568,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2140793,"term":"oil pastels","aatid":300230810,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2044353,"term":"wove paper","aatid":300014187,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2045804,"term":"charcoal","aatid":300012862,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2188681,"classification":"charcoal drawings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031609,"culture":"French"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"74.92"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"58.73"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"4.12"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"47.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"32.00"}],"packages":[{"packageid":182970,"name":"P&D_Drawings_Watercolors"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1943-136-1"],"displaymaker":"Edgar Degas, 1834–1917; born and died Paris, France","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Edgar Degas (1834–1917, born and died Paris, France), Bather (Standing Female Nude), ca. 1896. 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