![1890 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Bather Stepping into a Tub [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) | by R.M.Lenox](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51273187813_ce905c3b6c.jpg)
1890 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Bather Stepping into a Tub [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas's interest in the motif of a nude entering the water apparently dates to his student days, when he copied the figure of a man scrambling over a riverbank from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Michelangelo. This is one of seven pastels in which Degas ventured a modern version of the subject. The woman, her arms and legs splayed precariously against a zinc bathtub, powerfully manifests the combination of physical awkwardness and sensuality that characterizes the artist's depictions of bathers.
1890 (ca.), Edgar Degas, Bather Stepping into a Tub [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Degas's interest in the motif of a nude entering the water apparently dates to his student days, when he copied the figure of a man scrambling over a riverbank from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Michelangelo. This is one of seven pastels in which Degas ventured a modern version of the subject. The woman, her arms and legs splayed precariously against a zinc bathtub, powerfully manifests the combination of physical awkwardness and sensuality that characterizes the artist's depictions of bathers.