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Sarah Whitfield (who installed the show for its previous run at London's Tate Gallery), while not denying the compulsive nature of Marthe's bathing, has suggested that hydropathy was a popular treatment for such ailments as tubercular laryngitis, which Marthe suffered from and eventually, in 1942, died of.
Marthe looks embalmed in formaldehyde, her features dissolving before our eyes.
She introduced herself as Marthe de Mélingy--the sort of mock-noble name that demimondaines such as Proust's Odette de Crécy liked to assume--and claimed to be a teen-ager.
In some of his bathroom scenes of Marthe, Bonnard marks his own voyeuristic presence at the margins--a knee jutting into the canvas here, a hazy profile there.
The usual line is that Marthe, paranoid and neurotic, had a mania for cleanliness.