In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
For the last decade of his life, Renoir lived and worked at Les Collettes, his estate in the South of France. Surrounded by olive trees and rolling hills, the property represented for Renoir a kind of preindustrial Eden, far removed from rapidly modernizing Paris. It was here that he produced this bathing group and countless other scenes of sensual nudes lounging in sun-dappled landscapes—fantasies of the female body in total harmony with nature.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Bathers Playing
Auguste Renoir — Nude
Paul Cézanne — The Large Bathers (Les grandes baigneuses)
Paul Cézanne — Group of Bathers (Groupe de baigneurs)
Auguste Renoir — Bather Arranging Her Hair
Paul Cézanne — Four Bathers (Quatre baigneuses)
Paul Cezanne — The Battle of Love