The Tub

Modeled 1889, cast 1919/21

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Status: On View, Gallery 226
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: The Tub
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Modeled 1889
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Marked: 26 / HER.D; CIRE PERDUE A.HEBRARD (foundry mark); signed: DEGAS
Dimensions: H.: 47 cm (18 1/2 in.); Base: 41.3 × 42.6 cm (16 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment
Reference Number: 1950.114
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John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 23, 78–80, no. 27.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Recent Purchases and Gifts,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 44, 4 (November 1950), n. p. (ill.).
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 26.
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), p. 146, no. 27, pls. 76–78.
Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 144, cat. S56.
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 9–10, 24, 38, 63, 68–69, 75, 80, 83 n. 56, 107–08, 114, fig. 92.
Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), p. 179, no. 56.
Sara Campbell, “A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes,” Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), pp. 23-24, no. 26.
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 172–73, no. 26.

New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, “Edgar Degas: His Family and Friends in New Orleans,” 2 May – 16 June 1965, no. 26.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from American Collections,” 28 February – 25 May 1980, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 25 June – 21 September 1980, Detroit Institute of Arts, 27 October 1980 – 4 January 1981, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 22 February – 29 April 1981, no. 109.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago,” 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 77.

Commissioned by the Degas heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, by 1949 [see source cited above, p. 173]; sold to Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [according to agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file; see also source cited above]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute, 1950.

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