Title: After the Bath

Artist: Edgar Degas

After the Bath About 1895 Edgar Degas French, 1834–1917 Oil on canvas This anonymous, contemporary woman in the ordinary, private act of bathing is one of Degas’s most modern images. In contrast with the tension of the figure’s purposefully awkward pose, Degas built a surface of surprisingly sensuous tactility, at times using his fingers. Abandoning line and naturalistic detail in favor of the manipulation of in-tense color, Degas managed to endow this woman with both monumentality and vulnerability.