Image: The Large Bathers (1887), oil on canvas painting by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), dimensions 115 cm x 170 cm, located at Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, USA.
The early works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of bright colors and light. But by the middle 1880s, he had left the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, as seen in The Bathers series of paintings, especially that he created during 1884-87. A trip to Italy in 1881, when Renoir saw the works of Raphael and other Renaissance masters, convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in order to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his ‘Ingres period’, as Renoir concentrated more on his drawing and emphasized on the outlines of figures than anything else.
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