After the Bath (Woman Drying Herself)  1896

Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 46inches (89.5 x 116.8cm) [br] Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchased with funds from the estate of George D. Widener, 1980 Description: This is one of three paintings that Edgar Degas executed around 1896 of a woman seen from the rear as she reclines awkwardly on the back of a chaise longue. Anticipated by both a photograph (The J. Paul Getty ...