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Description: After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair

TitleAfter the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair

Creator nameDegas, Edgar

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1893–1898

Object typeDrawing

Materialscharcoal and brown chalk on pale pink wove paper

Dimensions19 9/16 x 25 3/8 in. (49.7 x 64.4 cm)

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachussetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299831

Accession number1965.257

SubjectsVoyeurism in artComposition (Art)Human figure in artDrawing, French

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Degas at Harvard

Marjorie Benedict Cohn

Degas at Harvard

In his memoirs, Paul Joseph Sachs, Harvard Class of 1900, professor of fine arts, and associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, wrote: “Indeed, I have given proof of my faith by collecting twenty-nine works by Degas, for I am convinced that he was one of the greatest nineteenth-century French artists ...

Author

Marjorie Benedict Cohn

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.13-75

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00035.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16810&redirecttoanchor=22854

Chapter subject tags:Harvard University--MuseumsArt--Collectors and collectingHarvard University--Alumni and alumnaeArt, French--19th centuryArt, French--19th century--Exhibitions

Body: Pose and Gesture

Trent Barnes

Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium

~Students in the French Academy concluded their four years of study with the execution of a statically posed, muscular male nude. For more on the académie, see Sarah Mirseyedi’s essay on...

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Trent Barnes

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.204-209

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00039.019

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16399&redirecttoanchor=22854

Chapter subject tags:Gesture in artHuman figure in artComposition (Art)Drawing--Technique

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