In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Four nude female figures pose by the edge of a pool in a glade. The bathers theme originated in the Renaissance, symbolizing the harmony of nature and the female body. Cézanne alluded to this tradition by quoting famous classical sculpture: the standing figure, for instance, stretches her arm in imitation of an athlete by Lysippos, the classical Greek sculptor. But Cézanne departed from the classical ideal—and from the current impressionist concern with the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere—to search for the structure undergirding the figures and the landscape.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bathers in the Forest (Baigneuses da
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bathers in the Forest (Baigneuses da
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bathing Group
Paul Cezanne — The Battle of Love
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Badende kvinner
Otto Mueller — Bathers
Jules Pascin — Two Nudes–One Standing, One Sitting
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Bathers Playing 
Henri Matisse — Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bathers (Baigneuses)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Bathing Group
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
