Description
Seen from the side, a nude woman with long, loose red hair glances back over her shoulder, a white cloth wrapped around her lower body. Behind her a blue interior opens onto a hint of red furniture and a shallow bowl, the whole scene painted in quick, fluid strokes.
Painted in 1879, the picture keeps its setting loosely sketched compared to the more finished modelling of the figure, so the blue room reads as atmosphere rather than a specific place. The print holds that contrast between the more resolved figure and the looser room around her, since flattening both to the same finish would lose the picture’s structure.



