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Artist:
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Edgar Degas
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Title:
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Femme nue debout à sa toilette (Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself)
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Date:
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1891-1892
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Medium:
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Lithograph
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Dimensions:
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13 x 9 5/8 in. (33.02 x 24.45 cm) (image)
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Credit Line:
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The Francisca S. Winston Fund, 1956
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Location:
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Gallery 344
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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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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Degas, Edgar
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1834-1917
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Name:
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Degas, Edgar
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1834-1917
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Prints
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Work State:
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4 of 6
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Accession #:
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P.12,481
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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