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*’The Tub’ by Degas; pastel on cardboard; 60x83cm; Louvre, Paris.

[ibid (Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 5:779)]

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**{‘Renoir… called the series [of pastels of women at their toilet by Degas] “a piece of the Parthenon”, sensing perhaps the birth of a new classicism in which realism had taken on the functions formerly reserved to idealism.’}***

***[ibid (Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 5:779)]

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