In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
The present work is one of four Renoirs that Dr. Barnes acquired from the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel in December 1915, and in his book The Art of Renoir he describes the canvas as the embodiment of "the classic feeling of Michelangelo and Raphael, and the swirling surging movement of Tintoretto and Rubens." This homage to the old masters was an integral component of Renoir's modernist language. Unique to his late figurative paintings is the distorted ratio between the body's amplitude and its constricted surroundings, the suggestion of contours through tonal shifts, and the application of thin paint layers to allow the ground to show through, imbuing the flesh with an unparalleled luminescence.
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Auguste Renoir — Bather Arranging Her Hair
Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Bathing
Gustave Courbet — Nude with Flowering Branch
Auguste Renoir — Nude
Gustave Courbet — The Young Bather
Lucas Cranach the Elder — Eve
Bernardino Luini — Venus
Titian — Venus with a Mirror
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Bathers Playing 
Henri Lehmann — Study of a Female Nude
Edgar Degas — Woman Drying Her Arm
Auguste Renoir — A Young Girl with Daisies
