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The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1929, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer .
Henry Scott Tuke, The Bathers (1888; Leeds Art Gallery). Tuke was born at Lawrence Street, York, into the prominent Quaker Tuke family. [citation needed] His brother William Samuel Tuke was born two years earlier in 1856.
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.
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).
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Bather with a Griffon Dog; Bathers (Metzinger) The Bathers (Renoir) Bathers at Asnières; Bathers by a River; Bathers with a Turtle; The Bathers (Cézanne) The Bathers (Gleizes) Bathing (painting) The Bathing Pool; Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt) Bathsheba at her Bath (Ricci) The Birth of Venus (Boucher) Blonde Bather; The Blue Room (Picasso)
The painting's composition takes a pyramidal formation, with the three figures, who are blonde, dark and red-haired, having been framed by the two trees on either side of the painting. Light enters the wooded area from various angles, illuminating the bodies of the bathers and reflecting in the water.