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After the Bath, Woman drying herself
DEGAS Painted 1880-1900
Stamped: Degas Pastel on paper mounted on 
cardboard, 103.8 x 98.4 cm. No. 6295,
Purchased, 1959.One of a series of similar subjects, 
most of which date from the later 1880s and the 1890s.
Paris 1625-1650
In 1610 Henry IV was stabbed to death by an assassin when his coach was caught in a 
Paris traffic jam. His son Louis XVIII became king at the age of nine; during his minority his mother Marie de’ Medici, and then *Cardinal Richelieu, who became first minister in 1624, ran France from the capital. The monarch’s 
residence at this time was still the Louvre. Richelieu repeatedly staved off attempts by members of the court to usurp his and the king’s position, while lavishing money on impressive houses and a superb art collection.

Painters such as - Simon Vouet and - Lubin Baugin, returning to work in Paris after a visit to Italy, imported fresh 
artistic influences to the city. Other artists came from the provinces; the - Le Nain brothers were from Laon.

Louis XIV (1638-1715) was crowned king in 1643; during his minority Cardinal Mazarin ran the country while factions 
fought for power in Paris. The stark and unidealised nature of the  Le Nain brothers’ genre works, akin 
to the paintings of contemporary artists from the Netherlands, was novel for the period in France. They give a unique view 
of the lives of the poor in French society. Vouet spent 13 years working in Rome before returning to Paris in 1627. The style 
he formulated there was soon favoured by Louis XIII and the courtiers, whose town houses the artist decorated; this canvas is probably from a series painted for Claude Bullion, minister of finance. Champaigne’s portrait of Richelieu is 
similar to a lost work painted for the Palais Cardinal. The sitter commissioned from  Poussin a series of important Bacchanals, of which The Triumph of Pan is one. Champaigne, who was from Brussels, was very successful in Paris, attracting 

many patrons; the Vision of St Joseph for the church of the Minimes shows the influence of  Rubens in the facial types.
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After the Bath

 Ceres and Harvesting Cupids, Simon VOUET (Studio), about 1634
 


Cardinal Richelieu CHAMPAIGNE about 1637
 


Triple Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, CHAMPAIGNE, 1642
 


Four Figures at Table Louis? LE NAIN probably 1630s
 


The Vision of Saint Joseph, CHAMPAIGNE, about 1638
 


A Woman and Five Children, Antoine? LE NAIN, 1642
 


The Triumph of Pan Nicolas POUSSIN 1636
 


The Adoration of the Shepherds, LE NAIN Brothers, about 1640
 


Three Men and a Boy Louis? LE NAIN probably 1640s

 
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