F. Fénéon, La Revue indépendante, vol. VI, no. 15, Paris, January 1888, p. 309.
P. Lafond, Degas , vol. II, Paris, 1919, n.p. (illustrated; titled 'La sortie du bain').
G. Rivière, M. Degas, bourgeois de Paris , Paris, 1935, pp. 147 & n.p. (illustrated p. 147).
A.M. Frankfurter, ‘Twenty Important Pictures by Degas’, in The Art News, vol. 35, no. 26, New York, 27 March 1937, p. 14 (illustrated).
New York Herald Tribune , 21 March 1937, p. 7.
P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Peintures et pastels 1883-1908, Paris, 1947, no. 891, p. 520 (illustrated p. 521).
New York Social Register , New York, 1960, p. 682.
E.P. Janis, Degas Monotypes, Essay, Catalogue & Checklist, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, no. 122, n.p. (illustrated).
F. Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. 931, p. 128 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
R. Gordon & A. Forge, Degas, London, 1988, pp. 239, 260 & 278 (illustrated p. 239; dated '1886-1888' and with incorrect medium).
R. Thomson, Degas: The Nudes, London, 1988, pp. 82, 84, 132, 134 & 235 (illustrated pp. 85 & 132; dated 'circa 1885-1888').