Leaving the Bath
1879–80
- Medium
- drypoint, aquatint
- Dimensions
- 12.7 × 12.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192850
In Leaving the Bath, a woman is seen from behind as she awkwardly grips a tub while cautiously stepping out of it. Nearby, a maid is mostly obscured by a cloth meant to dry and warm her. Their sketchlike surroundings communicate intimacy and privacy and, in what would become a characteristic aspect of his bather imagery, Edgar Degas places the viewer in a voyeuristic perspective, with the two women unaware of our presence. The artist began to explore etching in the 1850s, registering in the print department of Paris’s Bibliothèque Nationale so that he could closely study the works of past mas…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2025.198
Registry history
- 1879–80 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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