Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Large Bathers
Alternate Title:
Les grandes baigneuses
Image View:
Detail, body draped with white cloth, feet in the water
Creator:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919)
Location:
repository: Musée Renoir (Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) MNR 878
Location Note:
19 Chemin des Collette; on loan from the Musee d'Orsay
GPS:
43.667652 7.157046
Date:
ca. 1903-1905 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Post-Impressionist
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
115 cm (height) x 168 cm (width)
Subjects:
human figure; nudes in art; water; bathing; swimming
Description:
This painting is a late reworking of his famous painting of the same title (1884-1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art). Renoir, in an attempt to reconcile the traditions of 17th and 18th century art with modern painting, labored over the 1884 work for three years. Faced with criticism of his new style after completing The Large Bathers, an exhausted Renoir never again devoted such painstaking effort to a single work. This late work (1903-1905) is done in a much less polished, more spontaneous manner. After 1902 his health declined progressively and from 1912 he was confined by rheumatism to a wheelchair; this was painted in Cagnes-sur-Mer. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RENOIR-MR-LGB-A0 4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Large Bathers