Woman with a Towel, 1894 or 1898, Pastel on cream-colored wove paper with red and blue fibers throughout, 37 3/4 x 30in. (95. 9 x 76. 2cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Degas used his fingers, brushes, and sharp implements to smudge, scrape, and polish this pastel, creating a sense of movement and texture, and revealing layers of brilliant color. Black outlines drawn over the pastel emphasize the contrapposto turn of the muscular and monumental nude