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Edgar Degas, [Seated Nude]
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Edgar Degas

[Seated Nude]

1895

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
17 × 12.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-759603

Like Edgar Degas's *Nude (Drying Herself),* this photograph of a woman putting on stockings shares the specific theme, the awkward intimacy, and the formal compositional qualities of some of his drawings and paintings of women in various stages of undress. Degas, a bachelor, showed a strong curiosity about the private, everyday rituals women perform--bathing, dressing, and ironing. Yet he would have had few opportunities to candidly observe a woman in this position. Scholars are uncertain whether Degas posed an artist's model in his studio or actually took his camera to a brothel.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1895 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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