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Woman with a Tub
Edouard Manet French
Not on view
When Manet returned to the theme of the female bather in the late 1870s after more than a decade, he placed his subjects in distinctly private settings. Here, a woman wearing only stockings prepares a bath, bending over a shallow tub against the backdrop of a curtained vanity. His application of the pastel medium, a newfound interest for the artist, is boldly spare. In subject and technique, this work recalls similar pastels by Degas depicting women bathing and at their toilette, which Manet may have seen at the third Impressionist exhibition, in 1877.
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