In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir believed that appealing to the viewer's tactile sense was essential when painting the naked body. "A nude is not done until I feel I can reach out and touch it," he said. In this painting produced close to the end of his life, Renoir seems to insist on the physicality of his figure. Velvety flesh, created with layers of thin glazes, fills the canvas; the woman's body seems ready to spill into our space.
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Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Bathing
Auguste Renoir — Nude
Auguste Renoir — Bather Arranging Her Hair
Gustave Courbet — The Young Bather
Camille Corot — Bacchante in a Landscape
Henri Fantin-Latour — Reclining Nude
Camille Pissarro — The Bather
L. Nicolas — Nimf
Henri Lehmann — Study of a Female Nude
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) — Nude Woman Standing, 
Jean Frédéric Schall — Morning Toilet
Edgar Degas — Woman drying her left arm
