Edgar Degas (1834-1917
)La Sortie du bain (petite pl.), or After the Bath III. 1891-1892. Lithograph. 225 x 248. Delteil 63; Reed-Shapiro 65. A very fine proof of the 1st state (of 2), on ivory vellum, before further work. Minor dusting along the lower edge of the folio. All margins [305 x 375 - Reed and Shapiro cite 315 x 372]. Very scarce.
The size of the lithographic stone itself appears to be larger than that quoted by Reed and Shapiro (which gives 262 x 312 mm) in that there is a curvilinear double escape line printed in the left margin (due to the fact that the edges of the stone have not been cleaned).
This lithograph is a transfer of a print from the fifth and final state of Après le Bain II (Delteil 60, Reed-Shapiro 64) to a new stone. In this first state of our subject, Degas added the figure of the maid and the rounded back of the chair. For the next state, the image was reduced and Reed and Shapiro argue that a new, smaller stone received a transfer from our first state.
"Some twenty impressions of the first state, many signed, have been located; only one (not signed) was from the Atelier sale (now in the Albertina. [...] At least twelve impressions of the second state are at present known; about half were signed. The same number of impressions came from the collection of Gustave Pellet. Recently, one impression of each state has been identified as part of the estate of Auguste Clot, a printer of lithographs..." (Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1984, p. 241).
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