Roses and Small Nude (Roses et petit nu)
1916
Oil on canvas
21 × 39.5 cm (8.3 × 15.6 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 13, North Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
Discussion
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir once said that he was painting a sketch of roses as "research of flesh-tones for a nude." He could have been describing this painting, in which a seminude female figure looks toward a heap of enormous roses that echo the colors and contours of her body. Their swirling forms morph further into a hatted woman at the far right.
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