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The Bathers (French: Les Grandes Baigneuses) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) first exhibited in 1906. The painting, which is exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the largest of a series of Bather paintings by Cézanne; the others are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, National Gallery, London, the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania, and the ...
Seurat completed the painting of Bathers at Asnières in 1884, at 24 years old. He applied to the jury of the Salon of the same year to have the work exhibited there, only to be rejected. The Bathers continued to puzzle many of Seurat’s contemporaries, and the picture would only be widely acclaimed many years after the artist's death (age 31).
Bathers by a River was originally commissioned by Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin, but Shchukin rejected it after seeing an early watercolor study of the picture.The initial concept for the painting was "a scene of Arcandian leisure" and work began on the canvas in 1909.
Seated Bather Drying Her Leg (French: Baigneuse assise s'essuyant une jambe) 1914: 51 cm × 41 cm (20 in × 16 in) Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France [46] Women Bathers (French: Femmes au bain) 1916: 40.5 cm × 51 cm (15.9 in × 20.1 in) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden [47] Blond Girl with a Rose (French: Blonde à la rose) 1915–1917
Tuke repeated this motif in variations and in different techniques. There is a watercolour on paper, titled A bather on the rocks, signed and dated 1921, which shows Charlie Mitchell, lying bare chested on a rock, wearing the white trousers, holding his pinkish shirt in his right hand, and looking over the sea.
Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Large Bathers, is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir made between 1884 and 1887. The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia. [1] [2] The painting depicts a scene of nude women bathing. In the foreground, two women are seated beside the water, and a third is standing in the water near them.
The subject of a bather and the polished draughtsmanship show the influence of Ingres, and especially such works as The Source. The subject's pose, with arms lifted to reveal her nude body, derives from the Venus Callipyge , a celebrated Greco-Roman statue that Leighton would have seen and admired at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', also known as The Bather, [1] is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson 's 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked and is torn between his ...