A Bather (Bather is Styling)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Work Overview

A Bather (Bather is Styling)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Original Title: Baigneuse se Coiffant
Date: c.1887 - 1890
Style: Impressionism
Period: Rejection of Impressionism
Genre: nude painting (nu)
Medium and support: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 39.4 x 29.2 cm
Location: National Gallery, London, UK


Renoir's visit to Italy in 1881 stimulated an interest in subjects inspired by classical antiquity rather than taken from contemporary life. This resulted in series of nudes set in generalised landscape settings which he painted in the late 1880s and 1890s, of which this is an example.