After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1890s

This painting forms part of a series of female nudes that Degas produced in the 1890s. The series was created at a time when Degas had largely retreated from the public eye, and his art had become more inwardly focused. He obsessively returned to the female form as a subject, using live models, photographs, and his own drawings and sculptures as resources for poses and gestures.