The Bathers (Renoir)
The Bathers | |
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Artist | Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
Year | 1918–1919 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 60 cm × 110 cm (24 in × 43 in) |
Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
The Bathers (French: Les Baigneuses) is an oil painting on canvas made between 1918 and 1919 by the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. After being given to the State by his three sons in 1923, it is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It is representative of Renoir's late work period (1892–1919).
There are two groups of naked women: two models lying in the foreground plus three bathers in the background, on the right. One of the models of this painting is Andrée Hessling, who became the first wife of Renoir's son, Jean. The natural setting displayed in the painting was the large garden of the house owned by the painter in Cagnes-sur-Mer.[1]
In the painting, Renoir removed any reference to the contemporary world and showed "a timeless nature". The theme of the bather is predominant in the final season of Renoir's paintings: the women portrayed by the painter are free and uninhibited. These bathers are "melted in the nature and the forms merge with the trees, flowers and the shares of red water".[2]
The painting received criticism because of "the enormousness of the legs and arms, the weakness of flesh, and the pinkish color of the models".[2]
See also
- Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882)
- List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
References
- ^ "Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Les Baigneuses" (in French). Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ a b Renoir — Les classiques de l'art (in French). Paris: Flammarion. 2005. p. 168. ISBN 2-08-011445-X.
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- List of paintings
- Portrait of William Sisley (1864)
- Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866)
- Diana (1867)
- Lise with a Parasol (1867)
- Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867)
- A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868)
- In Summer (1868)
- Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868)
- Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869)
- La Grenouillère (1869)
- A Nymph by a Stream (1869-70)
- L'Algérienne (1870)
- La Promenade (1870)
- Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870)
- Woman with Parakeet (1871)
- The Harem (1872)
- Le Pont-Neuf (1872)
- Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873)
- La Parisienne (1874)
- La Loge (1874)
- The Grand Boulevards (1875)
- Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875)
- In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875)
- Woman with a Cat (1875)
- Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
- Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876)
- The Swing (1876)
- A Girl with a Watering Can (1876)
- Mother and Children (1876)
- At the Theatre (1876-1877)
- Eugène Murer (1877)
- The Day Dream (1877)
- The Cup of Chocolate (1878)
- Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878)
- Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878)
- Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879)
- Paysage Bords de Seine (1879)
- Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880)
- Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)
- Pink and Blue (1881)
- Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881)
- Young Women in Black (1880-1882)
- Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882)
- The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86)
- By the Seashore (1883)
- Dance at Bougival (1883)
- Dance in the City (1883)
- Dance in the Country (1883)
- Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887)
- Nature morte: fleurs (1885)
- The Braid (1886-1887)
- Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888)
- Girls at the Piano (1892)
- Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897)
- Woman Playing a Guitar (1897)
- Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907)
- Nude (1910)
- After the Bath (1910)
- The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910)
- Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911)
- The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914)
- Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917)
- Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918)
- The Bathers (1918–19)
- Venus Victorious (c. 1914)
- A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
- Bazille's Studio (1870 painting)
- The Impressionists (2006 series)
- Renoir (2012 film)
- Aline Charigot (wife)
- Lucienne Bisson (daughter)
- Pierre Renoir (son)
- Jean Renoir (son)
- Claude Renoir (son)
- Claude Renoir (grandson)
- Alain Renoir (grandson)
- Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson)
- Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter)
- Musée de Montmartre, home and studio
- Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model)
- Lise Tréhot
- Marguerite Legrand
- Catherine Hessling
- Richard Guino
- Jeanne Samary
- Suzanne Valadon
- Henriette Henriot
- Jane Henriot (child model)
- Raoul Rigault
- Jeanne Baudot (his only student)
- Maison Fournaise
- Pays des Impressionnistes
- Renoir (crater)