La Toilette Installation image by Dan Watkins
If you comb through 19th-century French Impressionists’ work, along with rapid brush strokes and vibrant colors, you are sure to come across washing and bathing scenes like Edgar Degas’ “Woman in a Tub” and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “La Toilette.”
In Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting, a woman with bright red hair tied in a bun sits with light blue fabric wrapped around her waist and a bare back, gazing away from the viewer. It is a very intimate moment before or after bathing depicted through the male gaze.
August 1, 2024
