The Bath (Le Bain)

The Bath (Le Bain) by Félix Vallotton

Medium

woodcut in black on yellow paper support

Dimensions

sheet: 21.4 × 25.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 1/16 in.) mount: 32.3 × 50.2 cm (12 11/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

Accession Number

2001.136.78

About the Artist

Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, into a comfortable middle-class family, and moved to Paris in 1882 to enroll at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the portrait painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre and the history painter Gustave Boulanger. Paris would remain his home for the rest of his life, and he became a French citizen in 1900 following his marriage to the art ...

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