Degas and Cassatt have used white marks that pop out in strange ways, there seems to be more of a highlight on the woman bathings hip than the existing light and shadow calls for, in Cassatt’s piece it appears as though the piece was censored or she had afterthoughts, there are two big blotches of white that stick out, one in the baby’s crotch an the other just above the mother’s left wrist. One other item of descrepincy is the young girl in Cassatt work, either has a very long arm, she is uncomfortable in which she is leaning back with her arm fully extended to her knee, or Cassatt just wanted that hand in the image, Degas has a strange hand thing going on also, the bathers right arm, that is engaged in the drying, the hand appears to be more the size child’s
Degas and Cassatt have used white marks that pop out in strange ways, there seems to be more of a highlight on the woman bathings hip than the existing light and shadow calls for, in Cassatt’s piece it appears as though the piece was censored or she had afterthoughts, there are two big blotches of white that stick out, one in the baby’s crotch an the other just above the mother’s left wrist. One other item of descrepincy is the young girl in Cassatt work, either has a very long arm, she is uncomfortable in which she is leaning back with her arm fully extended to her knee, or Cassatt just wanted that hand in the image, Degas has a strange hand thing going on also, the bathers right arm, that is engaged in the drying, the hand appears to be more the size child’s