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Tub
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
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painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
17 January 2004 – 9 May 2004
2004-05-09
17 January 2004 – 9 May 2004
2004-05-09
2004-01-17
Galleria d’Arte Moderna  (Bologna, Italy)
http://www.galleriadartemoderna.bo.it
2004-01-17
Ideal and reality
Loan-out
The Tub
support: 654 × 546 mm
frame: 846 × 740 × 110 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<p><b>Jean-Louis Forain</b><span> 1852-1931 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/forain-the-tub-n05294" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05294</span></a> </span><b>The Tub</b><span>
</span><i>c</i><span>.1886-7 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'à M. Cousin | j.l. forain' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 1/2(65.5 x 54.5)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
[?M. Cousin]; G. Manoury, Paris; with Leicester Galleries, London; Sir Hugh Walpole, London, 1927</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Contemporary French Paintings</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, July-August 1927 (21) as 'The Tub'; </span><i>Hugh Walpole's Collection</i><span>, French Gallery, London, May-June 1937 (37); </span><i>The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (30); </span><i>Forain (1852-1931)</i><span>, Browse and Darby Ltd., London, May-June 1978 (10)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Mervyn Levy, </span><i>Painting for All</i><span> (London 1958), facing p.17 in colour (detail) </span>
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<p><span>This picture appears to have been painted a year or so later than 'The Widower' (Musée du Louvre), which was exhibited at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a> of 1885. It would seem to have been inspired by Degas, who exhibited at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionist</span></a> exhibition in 1886 a series of pastels of 'nudes of women bathing, washing, drying, wiping themselves, combing their hair or having it combed'. </span>
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<p><span>It was possibly either the picture 'The Toilet' lent by M. Petitdidier to La Libre Esthétique, Brussels, in March-April 1912 (119) and to Forain's retrospective exhibition </span><i>Oeuvres de J.-L. Forain</i><span> at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in January-February 1913 (56) or 'Woman at her Toilet' lent to the latter (43) by M. Leclanché. There was also a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> by Forain called 'Woman at her Toilet' in the 8th Impressionist exhibition of May-June 1886 (29). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.222-3, reproduced p.222 </span>
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