Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub

Edgar Degas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painting depicts a woman in a bathing scene. The woman is nude and bent over. Her head is lowered and her hair is brown. She has her arms wrapped around her shins. The woman stands in a shallow tub. The tub is round and gray-blue. A white curtain or towel hangs behind the woman. The background is a mottled brown color. The woman's reflection appears in the water of the tub.