Useum

Towel

80 works by 23 artists

80 works featuring “Towel” by 23 artists, from the 17th to the 20th century, held in 50 museums.

Femme s'essuyant, Edgar Degas

Femme s'essuyant, 1906.

Femme s'essuyant (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Museo Soumaya, Mexico

Naked Men in the Baths, Edvard Munch

Naked Men in the Baths, 1923.

Nakne menn i badeanstalt (museum title)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian), oil on canvas

Munch Museum, Norway

La Sortie du bain, Joaquín Sorolla

La Sortie du bain, 1915.

La Sortie du bain (museum title)

Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish)

Sorolla Museum, Spain

Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself, Edgar Degas

Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself, 1891–1892.

Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), lithograph (transfer from monotype with crayon, tusche, and scraping); fifth state of six

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Après le bain, Edgar Degas

Après le bain, 1890.

Après le bain (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Bavarian State Painting Collections, Germany

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant, Edgar Degas

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant, 1890.

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Princeton University Art Museum, United States

Après le bain, Edgar Degas

Après le bain, 1888.

Après le bain (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland

Femme à sa toilette essuyant son pied gauche, Edgar Degas

Femme à sa toilette essuyant son pied gauche, 1886.

Femme à sa toilette essuyant son pied gauche (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Musée d'Orsay, France

La Chambre à Coucher, Vincent van Gogh

La Chambre à Coucher, 1889.

La Chambre à Coucher (museum title)

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

Kneeling Woman, Edgar Degas

Kneeling Woman, 1884.

Kneeling Woman (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Femme nue assise s'essuyant les cheveux, Edgar Degas

Femme nue assise s'essuyant les cheveux, 1902.

Femme nue assise s'essuyant les cheveux (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Brooklyn Museum, United States

Bathing on a Summer Evening, Félix Vallotton

Bathing on a Summer Evening, 1892–1893.

Bain au soir d'été (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), oil on canvas

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

After the bath - woman drying herself, Edgar Degas

After the bath - woman drying herself, 1895.

After the bath - woman drying herself (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Courtauld Institute of Art, United Kingdom

La Femme au tub, Edgar Degas

La Femme au tub, 1891.

La Femme au tub (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Hiroshima Museum of Art, Japan

Homme au bain, Gustave Caillebotte

Homme au bain, 1884.

Homme au bain (museum title)

Gustave Caillebotte (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

Homme s'essuyant la jambe, Gustave Caillebotte

Homme s'essuyant la jambe, 1884.

Homme s'essuyant la jambe (museum title)

Gustave Caillebotte (French), oil on canvas

Private collection

Les Baigneuses, Paul Cézanne

Les Baigneuses, 1900.

Les Baigneuses (museum title)

Paul Cézanne (French), oil on canvas

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark

After the Bath, Edgar Degas

After the Bath, 1886.

After the Bath (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Italy

La toilette, Edgar Degas

La toilette, 1884.

La toilette (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Hermitage Museum, Russia

Bather Drying Herself, Edgar Degas

Bather Drying Herself, c. 1883–1884.

Bather Drying Herself (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), charcoal and pastel on off-white laid paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

A Girl Washing Herself Before a Carnival, Carl Bloch

A Girl Washing Herself Before a Carnival, 1887.

En pige, som vasker sig før et karneval (museum title)

Carl Bloch (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

After the Bath, Edgar Degas

After the Bath, 1897.

After the Bath (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Switzerland

Woman with a Towel, Edgar Degas

Woman with a Towel, 1894 or 1898.

Woman with a Towel (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel on cream-colored wove paper with red and blue fibers throughout

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Pilgrimage to the Torinomachi Festival across the Ricefields of Asakusa (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mōde), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), Utagawa Hiroshige

Pilgrimage to the Torinomachi Festival across the Ricefields of Asakusa (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mōde), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), 1857.

Pilgrimage to the Torinomachi Festival across the… (museum title)

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese), colour woodcut on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Baigneuses, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Baigneuses, 1916.

Baigneuses (museum title)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French), oil on canvas

Barnes Foundation, United States

Kitchen Scene, Diego Velázquez

Kitchen Scene, 1618–1620.

Kitchen Scene (museum title)

Diego Velázquez (Spanish), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

Woman bathing, Edgar Degas

Woman bathing, 1887.

Woman bathing (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands

Woman at Her Toilet, Pierre Bonnard

Woman at Her Toilet, c. 1905.

Femme à sa toilette (museum title)

Pierre Bonnard (French), oil on cardboard

Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Switzerland

Breakfast in Sora, Peder Severin Krøyer

Breakfast in Sora, 1880.

Frokost i Sora (museum title)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish), oil on wood

National Museum of Norway

After the Bath, Joaquín Sorolla

After the Bath, 1908.

After the Bath (museum title)

Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish), oil on canvas

The Hispanic Society of America, United States

The Turkish Bath, Félix Vallotton

The Turkish Bath, 1907.

Le Bain turc (museum title)

Félix Vallotton (Swiss), oil on canvas

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Le petit déjeuner après le bain, Edgar Degas

Le petit déjeuner après le bain, 1896.

Le petit déjeuner après le bain (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland

Red needle, Anders Zorn

Red needle, 1913.

Röd barr (museum title)

Anders Zorn (Swedish), oil on canvas

Malmö Art Museum, Sweden

Marthe à sa toilette, Pierre Bonnard

Marthe à sa toilette, 1919.

Marthe à sa toilette (museum title)

Pierre Bonnard (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon, France

Three Musicians, Diego Velázquez

Three Musicians, c. 1618.

Trois musiciens (museum title)

Diego Velázquez (Spanish), oil on canvas

Gemäldegalerie, Germany

Woman Combing Her Hair, Edgar Degas

Woman Combing Her Hair, c. 1888–1890.

Woman Combing Her Hair (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, affixed to original pulpboard mount

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Woman Having Her Hair Combed, Edgar Degas

Woman Having Her Hair Combed, c. 1886–1888.

Woman Having Her Hair Combed (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, affixed to original pulpboard mount

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Woman Drying Her Foot, Edgar Degas

Woman Drying Her Foot, 1885–1886.

Woman Drying Her Foot (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel on buff wove paper, affixed to original pulpboard mount

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Woman drying her left arm, Edgar Degas

Woman drying her left arm, 1884.

Woman drying her left arm (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil

Woman Drying Her Arm, Edgar Degas

Woman Drying Her Arm, late 1880s–early 1890s.

Woman Drying Her Arm (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel and charcoal on light pink wove paper, discolored at the edges

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Still Life with Jug, Lyubov Popova

Still Life with Jug, 1907–1908.

Still Life with Jug (museum title)

Lyubov Popova (Russian), oil on canvas

MOMus - Museum of Modern Art, Costakis Collection, Greece

Après le bain, femme nue s'essuyant la nuque, Edgar Degas

Après le bain, femme nue s'essuyant la nuque, 1895.

Après le bain, femme nue s'essuyant la nuque (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Musée d'Orsay, France

Bather Drying Herself, Edgar Degas

Bather Drying Herself, c. 1892.

Bather Drying Herself (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), charcoal and pastel, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper (mounted on cardboard)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Bather Stepping into a Tub, Edgar Degas

Bather Stepping into a Tub, c. 1890.

Bather Stepping into a Tub (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), pastel and charcoal on blue laid paper, mounted at perimeter on backing board

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant, Edgar Degas

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant, 1890.

Après le bain, femme s'essuyant (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

National Gallery, United Kingdom

La Toilette apres le bain, Edgar Degas

La Toilette apres le bain, 1888.

La Toilette apres le bain (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Le Tub, Edgar Degas

Le Tub, 1886.

Le Tub (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Musée d'Orsay, France

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub, Edgar Degas

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub, 1885.

Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French), charcoal and pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, laid down on silk bolting

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Femme s’essuyant, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Femme s’essuyant, 1913.

Femme s’essuyant (museum title)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French), oil on canvas

Kunst Museum Winterthur (museum building), Switzerland

Trois Baigneuses sortant du bain, Camille Pissarro

Trois Baigneuses sortant du bain, 1896.

Trois Baigneuses sortant du bain (museum title)

Camille Pissarro (French), oil on canvas

Hiroshima Museum of Art, Japan