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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 ...
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).
The painting expands on a number of motifs that Ingres had explored in earlier paintings, [1] in particular The Valpinçon Bather (1808) and La Grande odalisque (1814) and is an example of Romanticism. The work is signed and dated 1862, when Ingres was around 82 years old. [2] He altered the original rectangular format and changed the painting ...
The Valpinçon Bather (Fr: La Grande Baigneuse) is an 1808 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), held in the Louvre since 1879. Painted while the artist was studying at the French Academy in Rome , it was originally titled Seated Woman but later became known after one of its nineteenth-century ...
William Alexander (born Wilhelm Alexander; [1] 2 April 1915 – 24 January 1997), known as Bill Alexander on his TV show, was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of The Magic of Oil Painting (1974–1982) television series that ran on PBS in the United States. He co-wrote The Art of Bill Alexander ...
Each artist was tasked with painting a narrow panel—32 inches high and between 2½ and 8 inches wide—for The Hall of Panels. [1] The difficulty of finding a subject was humorously suggested by Lord Leighton, who offered to paint a panel. Sir Lawrence sent him the dimensions. A few days after they met at dinner at the house of a mutual friend.
Georges Braque, 1908, Baigneuse (Le Grand Nu, Large Nude), oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Source Date Dated on the reverse June 1908: Source: Centre Georges Pompidou. Author Georges Braque. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.