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Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself, Edgar Degas — Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself, 1891-1892
Edgar Degas
Lithograph
The Francisca S. Winston Fund, 1956 P.12,481
Not on View
More than any other artist since Rembrandt, Edgar Degas treated the nude as a naked body rather than as an idealized figure. To 19th-century observers, this appeared revolutionary, a rejection of academic tradition based on the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome. Female bathers, often in natural but awkward poses that to some seemed inappropriate for public display, formed a large part of his artistic production. In his hands, lithography also took on the casual appearance of a sketch rather than a highly finished drawing.

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Title: Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself
Dated: 1891-1892
Artist: Edgar Degas
Nationality: French
Artist Life: 1834 - 1917
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: European Art
Dimension: 13 x 9 5/8 in. (33.02 x 24.45 cm) (image)19 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (50.17 × 40.01 × 2.86 cm) (outer frame)
Credit: The Francisca S. Winston Fund, 1956
Accession Number: P.12,481
Medium: Lithograph
Country: France
Century: 19th century
Provenance: [Carstairs Gallery, New York, until 1956; sold May 15, for $1,000, to Mia]
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Prints
Object Name: Print
Catalogue Raisonne: Delteil 65 iii/iv; Adhemar 63; Reed & Shapiro 61 iv/vi
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