Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La jeune baigneuse (The Young Bather) 1866 Oil on canvas, 130.2 x 97.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The traditional theme of women bathing attracted Courbet’s attention repeatedly in the 1860s. This scene revisits a…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes tahitiennes se baignant (Tahitian Women Bathing) 1892 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 111.12 x 89.21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dreaming of a paradise where he could “listen to the silence of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petite étude pour un nu (Small Study for a Nude) 1882 Oil on canvas, 13.3 x 10.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse arrangeant ses cheveux (Bather Arranging Her Hair) 1893 Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 74 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, a nearly nude, young woman with pale pink skin stands with…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les grandes baigneuses (The Large Bathers) 1901–1902 Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Young Girl Bathing) 1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pierre Auguste Renoir painted a great many canvases of single bathers in outdoor settings, timeless studies of fulsome…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?) 1654 Oil on oak, 61.8 x 47 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt’s painting, unique for him in its tender intimacy, shows a young woman almost up to her knees in…
Derain, André (1880-1954) Baigneuses (Bathers) 1907 Oil on canvas, 132.1 x 195 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Baigneurs sur la plage de Trouville (Bathers on the Beach at Trouville) 1869 Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 48.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)