In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir painted the female nude obsessively during his later career. He devoted hundreds of canvases to the depiction of bathing figures, presented alone or in groups. Here, as in the vast majority of these paintings, the bather does not acknowledge the presence of the artist or viewer but remains absorbed in her task, heightening the sense of voyeurism. Renoir achieved the effect of the soft and velvety-looking skin by applying liquid-thin paint in short, delicate strokes; this a hallmark of his late works.
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Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Bathing
Auguste Renoir — Bather Arranging Her Hair
Auguste Renoir — Nude
Gustave Courbet — The Young Bather
Gustave Courbet — Nude with Flowering Branch
Edgar Degas — Woman Drying Her Arm
L. Nicolas — Nimf
Auguste Renoir — Reclining Nude
Moïse Kisling — Buste de jeune fille
Henri Lehmann — Study of a Female Nude
Edgar Degas — Woman drying her left arm
Paul Cézanne — Nude woman
