Le Tub

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Edgar Degas
Le Tub
1886
pastel sur carton
H. 60 ; L. 83 cm avec cadre H. 79,5 ; L. 103,5 cm
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Edgar Degas
Le Tub
1886
pastel sur carton
H. 60 ; L. 83 cm avec cadre H. 79,5 ; L. 103,5 cm
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Edgar Degas
Le Tub
1886
pastel sur carton
H. 60 ; L. 83 cm avec cadre H. 79,5 ; L. 103,5 cm
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Edgar Degas
Le Tub
1886
pastel sur carton
H. 60 ; L. 83 cm avec cadre H. 79,5 ; L. 103,5 cm
Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)

Presented at the eighth Impressionist exhibition in 1886, this pastel is one of a series of seven pictures produced by Degas in the mid 1880's on the theme of women at their ablutions, a subject already explored by the artist in a series of monotypes some ten years previously.
His minute observation of their intimate, everyday gestures is a far cry from the traditional romantic scenes of ladies at their toilette. The young woman's pose, sometimes interpreted by contemporary critics as the expression of a certain animality, is derived from that of the Crouching Aphrodite of antiquity.
Its still life of toilet articles, with a distorted Japanese-style perspective, and its plunging view, make this pastel one of the most audacious and accomplished of Degas' works on the modern theme of the woman in her bathtub.

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