Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself

Edgar Degas

Date

1891–92

Medium

Lithograph

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

More than any other artist since Rembrandt, Edgar Degas treated the nude as a naked body rather than as an idealized figure. To 19th-century observers, this appeared revolutionary, a rejection of academic tradition based on the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome. Female bathers, often in natural but awkward poses that to some seemed inappropriate for public display, formed a large part of his artistic production. In his hands, lithography also took on the casual appearance of a sketch rather than a highly finished drawing. France, Europe

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