Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009456About the Artwork
After viewing Renaissance paintings on a trip to Italy in 1881, Renoir attempted to bring greater order and stability to Impressionism by merging flickering light effects with solid forms. He conveyed this new ambition in a series of paintings of nude bathers, a subject that preoccupied him from 1883 until his death in 1919. Avant-garde artists of the 20th century admired his ability to blend modernist and classicizing tendencies.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: Renoir
Provenance
[Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris.] Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland, OH, purchased on February 18, 1920 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, purchased on May 29, 1939
Exhibition history
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). Renoir. Künsthalle Tubingen (organizer) (January 20-May 26, 1996). Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (June 29-September 15, 2002); El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX (November 3, 2002-February 16, 2003). Renoir in the 20th Century. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (September 23, 2009-January 4, 2010); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 14-May 9, 2010); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 12-September 5, 2010). A Summer at the Water's Edge: Leisure Activities and Impressionism. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France (April 27-September 29, 2013). Renoir: Intimacy. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (October 18, 2016-January 22, 2017); Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 48011 Bilbao, Spain (February 7-May 15, 2017). Renoir: The Body, The Senses. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (organizer) (June 8-September 22, 2019); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 27, 2019-January 26, 2020). Painting the French Riviera. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (October 2, 2026-January 31, 2027); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-July 11, 2027).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- c. 1897
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm (29 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 54.6 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 1939.269
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