In Après le Bain III, the third in a series of lithographs depicting a woman at her toilette, Degas captures his subject just after she has emerged from her bath. Bending forward to towel off her body, her wet hair falls heavily over her head mirroring the line of her right arm which is bent in the act of drying. Rendered with extreme sfumato—from the Italian “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”—Degas forgoes firm delineation of the body for a grainier tonal conception, so that the figure’s supple flesh seems to dissolve as it curves into a subtle s-shape. While Degas’ viewpoint may seem voyeuristic, his sensitive rendering of the unknowing woman in her private space is an ode to the female form in its most natural state.