The Bath

My name is Feely T. Heart, and I will be your guide today through one of our paintings: nn François Boucher's "The Bath," painted in 1730, invites us to peek into a luxurious moment of 18th-century French life. This intimate scene, housed here at the Detroit Institute of Arts, captures the essence of daily rituals for women of the upper class. nn The painting, measuring a modest 0.381 x 0.457 meters, draws our attention to the central figure: a nude woman gracefully standing in a basin, attended to by two other women. Notice the delicate way Boucher renders the fabrics, the shimmering white of