Woman Drying her Foot

Artwork: Woman Drying her Foot

Artist: Edgar Degas

Created: 1885-86

Medium and Support: Pastel on buff wove paper, affixed to pulpboard

Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 21 1/4 in

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

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“This pastel may well have been in the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition as well. Here we have the full bathtub being used to prop the bather’s foot as she dries it. Is this the same auburn-haired model as in the above paintings? It appears Degas blended areas of the pastel (her centre back, the bathtub, her right leg) as well as leaving areas of hatched lines. There seems to be a strange confusion in the area around the right hand drying the foot – do you see what I mean?” (Source text and photography from Wikipedia)

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