Bather Stepping into a Tub, ca. 1890, Pastel and charcoal on blue laid paper, mounted at perimeter on backing board, 22 x 18 3/4 in. (55. 9 x 47. 6 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Degas's interest in the motif of a nude entering the water apparently dates to his student days, when he copied the figure of a man scrambling over a riverbank from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Michelangelo