Woman with a Towel
Edgar Degas · 1894 or 1898 · Pastel on cream-colored wove paper with red and blue fibers throughout
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Woman with a Towel is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated 1894 or 1898. Pastel on cream-colored wove paper with red and blue fibers throughout. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Woman with a Towel” (1894 or 1898) is cropped the way Degas liked: dancers, bathers, or a room seen as if glanced at, not arranged for a formal portrait.
About the artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist of dancers, bathers, races, and ordinary rooms. He drew constantly and often cropped a scene as if it had been glanced at, rather than posed for a formal portrait.
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