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Copies of Cézanne's Bathers

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French Photographer · 1834–1917

Artist

> 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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In April 1877, the Impressionists' third group exhibition opened in Paris. Impressed by his friend Paul Cézanne's painting on view there, *Baigneurs au Repos* , Edgar Degas made two partial copies of it in his sketchbook. As his notebook was rather large and unwieldy, Degas probably sketched the painting from memory when he returned home, rather than in front of the actual scene. Degas focused on the standing bather from the foreground of the painting, producing a rather quick, cruel caricature of her naked body. Her head is a simple circle, with two curved lines for eyes, a half circle for her nose, and a swirl of lines representing her tousled hair. Partially erasing her arms to set them at a sharper angle, the artist concentrated particularly on the body's unusual bent position, shown from the front and above.

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Artist/Maker: Edgar Degas
subject_of[Homepage].id: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108E13
Date: about 1877
Medium: Graphite
Culture: French
Object Type: Drawing

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Object ID: aacfabb4-ad2e-4a24-a164-a5379850b34a
Object Type: Drawing
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Creator: Edgar Degas
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Culture: French
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Medium: Graphite
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Department: Drawings
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Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date: about 1877
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Begin Year: 1877
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End Year: 1877
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