Edgar Degas depicted women bathing and drying themselves obsessively in his later career, producing dozens of pastels and paintings that he described as showing the human body "as seen through a keyhole" — private, unposed, and absorbed in ordinary physical activity. "After the Bath" belongs to this major late series, in which Degas used bold, unconventional viewpoints and increasingly vivid pastel color to capture the body in motion rather than in idealized repose. These bather works are now considered among Degas's most innovative contributions to modern figure painting.
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