In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir painted the nude figure obsessively, especially during the later decades of his career, when he had turned away from impressionism. Here, as in so many of his canvases, Renoir idealizes the figure, emphasizing her gently curving contours and unblemished skin. Her body is turned toward the viewer so as to supply uninterrupted visual pleasure. Cradled by the landscape, the subject comes across not so much as a real person but as a fantasy of woman and nature in perfect harmony.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — Odalisque
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot — The Repose
Lambert Sustris — Liggende Venus
Jacopo Tintoretto — Summer
Edgar Degas
Auguste Renoir — Nude
Jacques de Gheyn (II) — Venus and Amor
Auguste Renoir — Bather Arranging Her Hair
Henri Fantin-Latour — Reclining Nude
Camille Corot — Bacchante in a Landscape
Alessandro Allori — Venus disarming Cupid
Arthur B. Davies — Stars and Dews and Dreams of Night
