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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Figure on the banks of the Seine and bathers [61] Musée d’Orsay, Paris 095 15.5 × 25 More images: 1883 Bathers sitting on the Beach of the Seine [64] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri 096 17.5 × 26.4 More images: 1883 Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières" [65] Art Institute of Chicago 097 15.8 × 25.1 More images: 1884 ...
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.
Three paintings were shown at the 1863 Salon and Holy Family (Now at Chimei Museum) was sold to Napoleon III, who presented it to his wife the Empress Eugénie, who hung it in her Tuileries apartment. [5] The Bather (1864) Bather (1864), a shocking nude, was submitted to an exhibition in Ghent, Belgium. It was a spectacular success and ...
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).
This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here . This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope Les Grandes Baigneuses (The Large Bathers), by Paul Cézanne, Philadelphia ...