"After the Bath" by Paul Peel

When I was growing up, I remember that we had a print of Paul Peel's After the Bath in our home for some time. I remember seeing it last when we were living in California; I'm not sure if my mom kept the print when we moved to Ohio. I remember looking at this print often when I was a girl, being intrigued and a little dismayed that the little girl in the picture was sitting on a fancy rug with her bare bottom!

I think that the coloring of the image below is probably a little more accurate than the print we owned, which contained more orange and brown tones (similar to this AllPosters.com image). Perhaps the enhanced contrasts and darker brown tones weren't a bad thing for me in the long run, since it might have subconsciously influenced by interest in Caravaggio and tenebrism!

Paul Peel, After the Bath, 1890