Au repos après le bain

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Au repos après le bain

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Edgar Degas

French Photographer · 1834–1917

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> No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament . . . I know nothing. > > --Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. His training was conventional: he spent five years in Italy, studied the O

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Crouching on a chaise longue, with her right knee tucked beneath her and her left elbow overhead, Degas’s bather strikes a wildly unnatural pose. Is she drying her side? Stretching her back? Or simply exposing a swath of skin to the artist’s watchful eye? Described by the great Degas specialist Jean Sutherland Boggs as “a poignant blend of eroticism and anguish,” this pose sums up all that is most appealing—and disquieting—in the artist’s treatment of the female nude. The same figure is repeated quite precisely in several oil paintings and at least one pastel; it was likely modeled on a photograph today in the Getty collection ([84.XM.495.2][1]). Despite the existence of various more “finished” versions of this subject, however, Degas plainly considered the proposed sheet a worthy representation of his talents, selecting it from hundreds of drawings in his studio to sign and published with just nineteen others in the 1897 book Degas: Vingt Dessins. [1]: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1045YG

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Artist/Maker
Edgar Degas
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/114VEQ
Date
1896
Medium
Charcoal and pastel, on tracing paper, mounted on board
Culture
French
Object Type
Drawing

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31ba8034-dd3b-4050-b837-b284d7b53750
Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Edgar Degas
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Culture
French
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Medium
Charcoal and pastel, on tracing paper, mounted on board
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Department
Drawings
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
1896
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1896
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1896
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