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Artiste: Édouard Manet (Paris 1832 – 1883 Paris)
Date: 1861-1862
Technique: eau-forte avec roulette
Dimensions: 28,5 x 22,5 cm (plaque)

Catalogue raisonné: Harris 20 ii/ii; Guérin 26

Provenance: « wedding present, April 1944 from Mrs Christopher B.V.R. Wyatt » selon une étiquette collée au verso du cadre où l’estampe était conservée.

Très belle impression en bistre, toutes marges, uniformément brunie.

It might seem, as is true with The Reader (cat. 13), that The Toilette has some affinity with Rembrandt’s etchings of nudes. The theme of the nude caught in the midst of bathing is seen in Rembrandt’s etching of Diana of 1631 (Hind 42) and in two later prints of women bathing (Hind 297 and 298). Manet’s bold drawing and use of sharp contrasts is also somewhat reminiscent of Rembrandt’s handling in the late plate of a Woman bathing at a brook (Hind 298), but again, as in earlier comparisons made with the Dutch artist’s work, the similarities do not extend to the struactural definition by line.

Jean C. Harris, Edouard Manet: The Graphic Work. A Catalogue Raisonné (a revised version), San Francisco, Alan Wofsy, 1990 (1970), p. 90.