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Degas: Movement and Observation—The Artist's Eye on Dance, Horses, and the Intimate Body

Woman Drying Her Foot

Gallery 817 · Edgar Degas · 1885–86 · Met web page

A bather doubled over in an intimate moment, drying her foot with characteristic awkwardness and vulnerability—one of Degas's most daring explorations of the female form.

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Woman Drying Her Foot by Edgar Degas

Stay in gallery 817 and look for this pastel on the wall.