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La sortie du bain – Antique Print

La sortie du bain — historic print
La sortie du bain. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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La sortie du bain

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Its French title, roughly "Leaving the Bath," sets the scene in the private routine of bathing, a subject many European artists took up in the 1880s as they moved away from formal history painting toward everyday life. The Library of Congress dates the etching to about 1882, a period when printmaking was enjoying a revival in Paris and artists used the etching needle to record fleeting domestic moments with direct, unposed lines. The record does not name the maker, so the sheet is best read as a window onto the taste of its time for intimate, modern scenes of private life.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes[ca. 1882]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,505 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120690

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