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Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir)
Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Large Bathers, is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir made between and The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia.[1][2]
The painting depicts a scene of nude women bathing.
In the foreground, two women are seated beside the water, and a third is standing in the water near them. In the background, two others are bathing. The one standing in the water in the foreground appears to be about to splash one of the women seated on the shore with water.
That woman leans back to avoid the expected splash of water.
Painting
Influences
It is inspired at least in part by a sculpture by François Girardon, The Bath of the Nymphs (), a low lead relief realized for a fountain park of Versailles.[3]:&#;&#; The painting is also influenced by Veronese and Tiepolo, whose work Renoir greatly admired during his time in Venice.&