The Bath
1900
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1900
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Bath is a 1900 by Félix Bracquemond, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman standing naked in a shallow forest pool, water rippling around her ankles. Bracquemond used faint pencil grids to plan this scene—like tracing paper for ceramics or prints. The same figure appears on plates and etchings, so this drawing was a first draft, not just a pretty sketch. If you like quiet, workaday studies, look up the technique of sfumato next.
![Donna ignuda addormentata nel parco [Naked Woman Asleep in the Park]](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/de8a13ff06573716/thumb.webp)
