The Tub, done from 1885 to 1886, was another of Degas’ works focused around a woman in a shallow tub. This time the woman is standing bent over at the hips towards the viewer. Not a very attractive pose, it easy to see why some may have taken issue with the way Degas portrayed his women. However, Degas would argue that he portrayed his woman only in the way that they actually existed. He was not trying to degrade them, or portray them in a way that would suggest prostitution, as some critics of his work took them to be an obvious representation of. Nothing in the paintings, however, suggests prostitution or even women of loose morals. Rather, Degas is offering the viewer a peek into the everyday intimate activities of a respectable woman. As Schacher puts it, the paintings offer “an anonymous and expressionless nudity, chastely self-absorbed and oblivious to the spectator.” (Schacher 78) Degas allows the women in his paintings to be unobserved and able to carry on her activities uninhibited. If any of the women were to show any recognition of an audience, such as a discreet gaze or acknowledgement, then the scenes would be entirely different. As they are, they are able to remain as innocent views of the intimate everyday actions of women at the toilette.