| Japanese Girl Bathing | |
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| Artist | James Tissot |
| Year | 1864 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 208 cm× 124 cm(82 in× 49 in) |
| Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon |
Japanese Girl Bathing (French: La Japonaise au bain) is an 1864 nude oil painting by the French artist James Tissot featuring a young Japanese woman bathing. [1] The work was part of the nineteenth century tradition of Orientalism. Tissot, who never visited Japan, painted a French model in his Parisian studio draped in a kimono. However, she wears it more like a European bathrobe. [2] The theme of Japanese objects is a recurring theme in his work of this period. [3]
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Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, having been acquired in 1913. [4]
