Degas' oeuvre is full of images of women taking care of themselves. In the absence of a male audience, implied or seen, his nudes are unconscious of posture and gesture. Degas loved the uncomfortable poses captured by snapshots, and these informed his vision of women's private world. In 'After the Bath', a woman steps out of her bathtub to a girl with a waiting towel. Balanced on her left leg, the bathwoman stabilizes herself by placing her left arm on a chair as she steps out of the bath. The intimacy of the scene is accentuated by the composition, the simple setting - a bathtub, a few chairs, a screen and some fabrics - lushly rendered in orange, pink and gold, trimmed with intense shades of blue, which surround the figure as the entrance to a cave.
Here the girl steps naked from her bath, helped by another woman. Because we see the model on the back, buttocks, back and part of a tit are visible.
Hilaire Germain Edgar (Edgar) Degas (Paris, 19 July 1834 - Paris, 26 September 1917) was a French impressionist painter and sculptor. He became famous as a painter and draughtsman under impressionism.
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