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Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl. It is housed in the Pushkin Museum , in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life.
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In the early years of the seventeenth century, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme told a story about a group of people who went to view the painting. He described the painting as showing "fair naked ladies" together in a bath, and adds that they "touch, and feel, and handle, and stroke, one the other, and intertwine and fondle with each other."
Female nudes were the dominant subject of painting in French Salons at the end of the 19th century. [23] Female models had become more common than male ones beginning in the early 19th century, first serving allegorical roles or as muses , but eventually becoming individuals "who could be classified and whose history could be written". [ 24 ]
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.
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The portrayal of nude women in an idealised setting is reminiscent of classical scenes of semi-nude figures, such as those portrayed in Venetian Renaissance art. [ 1 ] The artist Henri Matisse was a great admirer of Three Bathers and considered it to be a work of great importance.
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