Edgar Degas - Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub 1885

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub 1885
Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub
1885 81x56cm pastel/paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
When Degas showed his "suite of nudes," including this pastel, at the eighth and final Impressionist exhibition in 1886, critics viciously attacked the ungainly poses of his bathers. After the exhibition Degas gave the picture to Mary Cassatt in exchange for her painting Girl Arranging Her Hair (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Louisine Havemeyer eventually acquired both works.