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Woman Drying Her Foot

1885–86

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The story

Degas showed a suite of pastel nudes like this one, women washing and drying themselves, at the eighth Impressionist Exhibition in 1886. They drew the most concentrated body of critical writing on him in his lifetime, and the reaction was largely full of praise.

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Object details

Title: Woman Drying Her Foot
Artist: Edgar Degas
Date: 1885–86
Culture: French
Medium: Pastel
Object type: Drawings
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0501
Original image: 3000 × 2779 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

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Edgar Degas. Woman Drying Her Foot. 1885–86. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0501/