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The Blonde Bather (Blonde Bather II)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Blonde Bather (Blonde Bather II)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Original Title: La Baigneuse blonde (Baigneuse blonde II)
  • Date: 1882
  • Style: Impressionism
  • Period: Rejection of Impressionism
  • Genre: nude painting (nu)
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
  • Dimensions: 90 x 63 cm
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The painting dates back to a phase following the famous impressionist season of the 1870s. A first version of the work dates back to 1881 (preserved at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown) which differs in size and chromatic declination of the background. The painting was commissioned to Renoir by the dealer Durand-Ruel, who represented him at the time and who had been favorably impressed by that first draft. The model is Aline Charigot, the artist's partner and then wife, who poses for him on several occasions, while the background alludes, according to Renoir himself, to the bay of Naples. The canvas marks an important change in the painter's work, which began with a trip to Italy and the encounter with ancient art and the works of Raphael. This experience led him to develop drawings with more defined contours and particularly sculptural forms which in the painting are associated with the still impressionistic rendering of the surrounding natural space.

(Description taken and translated from: https://www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it/collezione/la-baigneuse-blonde/)

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