Degas woman leaving her bath

'Woman Leaving Her Bath' was created in by Edgar Degas in Impressionism style..

Woman Leaving Her Bath.

The artwork “Woman Leaving Her Bath” is a creation of the esteemed artist Edgar Degas, completed in the year

'Woman Leaving Her Bath' was created in by Edgar Degas in Impressionism style.

The woman leaving the bath, for example, is assisted by a maid.

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.

Woman Getting out of the Bath

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Edgar DegasFrench
Cast by A.-A. Hébrard et Cie

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue inGallery 814

Upon Degas's death in 1917, more than 150 figurative sculptures were found in his studio.

Most were made of fragile wax, clay, and plastiline (a wax- and oil-based modeling material). Many had deteriorated.

Degas exhibited a series of several pastels of nude women involved in bathing – washing, after the bath drying themselves, and combing their hair.

Only a few were preserved in copies that had been cast from them in plaster. Except for the wax Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (Washington: NGA) none of these sculptures had been publicly exhibited during the artist’s lifetime.

Although Degas had not favored reproducing his sculptures in more permanent materials, his heirs authorized that copies be cast in bronze in order to preserve the compositions and to sell them as finished works.

Paul-Albert Bartholomé, a sculptor and Degas's longtime friend, prepared 72 of the figures for casting, a process executed by the