PD Image: In the Waves (1889, aka ‘Dans les vagues, ou Ondine’, ‘En les onades, o Ondina’, and ‘Undine’), oil on canvas painting by French painter and writer Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), dimensions 92 x 72 cm (36.22 in x 28.35 in), located at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Public Domain Photo: In the Tepidarium (1881), oil on canvas painting by Dutch-British painter, draftsman, etcher and illustrator Lawrence Alma Tadema ( also spelled as Lourens / Laurens Alma Tadema, 1836-1912), dimensions 24.2 cm x 33 cm (9.53 x 12.99 in), located at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England.
PD Image: The Large Bathers (1898-1905), oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906); dimensions 210.5 cm x 250.8 cm (82 7/8 in x 98 3/4 in) located at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States.
The Large Bathers (Deutsch: Die großen Badenden, Français: Les Grandes Baigneuses) is often considered the masterpiece of Paul Cézanne. First exhibited in 1906, this painting is the largest of a series of paintings with the same title ‘The Bathers’ by Cézanne. The others are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the National Gallery, London.
This painting is generally referred to as ‘The Large Bathers’ to distinguish it from other paintings of Cezanne’s ‘Bathers’ series and it is considered one of the masterpieces of Modern Art. The painting was featured in ‘100 Great Paintings’ a television series created by Edwin Mullins for BBC Two in 1980.
Because of the technique employed in painting landscapes and still lives, The Large Bathers often compared to the works of Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Bathsheba at her bath (alternative title: Bathsheba at her toilet (2 Samuel 11:2), 1594 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman Cornelis van Haarlem, aka Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562-1638), dimensions 77.5 cm x 64 cm (30.51 in x 25.20 in), currently located in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Works of art by Cornelis van Haarlem, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, are on display at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem (Netherlands), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Louvre in Paris (France), The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square in London (United Kingdom), The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg (Russia) and other museums.
PD Image: ‘On the Sand, Valencia Beach’ (1908), Oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923).
Image: Bathing Woman (Hébe), 1850 oil on cardboard painting, 34 cm x 28.5 cm, private collection, by Austro-Hungarian portrait painter Demeter Laccataris (1798-1864).
PD Image: The Bath of Psyche (Le Bain de Psyché), 1879 oil on canvas painting by British painter Frederic Leighton (1st Baron Leighton, 1830-1896).
Image: A bela no banho (Beauty in the bath) oil on canvas, painted in 1886 by Emmanuel de Dieudonné, dimensions 183 cm x 128 cm (72.05 in x 50.39 in), located at Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife, Brazil
PD photo: Bathers on the Seine - Academy (Banhistas no Sena - Academia), oil on canvas painting (1874-1876) by French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883), size 132 cm x 98 cm located at São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
Image: La Baigneuse (1864 painting, aka The Bather) by Jules Laurens
Jules Auguste Joseph Laurens (1825-1901) is a French painter and lithographer, known for his Orientalist paintings, portraits of peasants and landscape. Born in a family of five children, at the age of twelve Jules joined his older brother, Jean Joseph Bonaventure Laurens, a French artist based in Montpellier.
From 1846 to 1849 he traveled as a draftsman to Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey and Persia, as part of a scientific mission led by the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell. Despite the failure of the mission because of the death Hommaire Hell in Isfahan, Jules brought back hundreds of sketches (historical monuments and daily life of the inhabitants of these regions), drawings and watercolors that would serve his artistic activity.
From 1850-1880 he worked in Paris and regularly participated in the Salon and other exhibitions, and received orders for work, including that of Madame Hommaire de Hell, after she read the notes of her late husband.
In 1880 he published a biography of his brother, and reflected upon the art and related matters of the times, and wrote on the important people he met, such as Victor Hugo, Ingres, Gustave Dore, etc.
He contributed greatly to the development of the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine and Museums of Carpentras. As an avid collector, he donated to the institution many notable works of contemporary artists such as Victor Hugo, Ingres, Auguste Bonheur, Eugene Ciceri, Gustave Dore, etc.
Image: Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (1722-24), oil on canvas painting by French Rococo painter and tapestry designer Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752).
Image: Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the elders) oil on canvas painting, dimensions 175 cm x 207 cm, located at Museo del Prado, Madrid, created by Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), who is generally known as Guercino.
Image: ‘Woman with Seashell’ (Femme au Coquillage) is an 1885 oil painting by French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
This is a scanned image of ‘Nu Sur La Plage’ (alternative name: Nude on the Beach), a 1922 oil on canvas painting by British painter John William Godward (1861-1922). CLICK on the photo for the enlarged image that shows the subtle brush strokes that brings out the sensuality in the composition and to see how the sea, the sand on the beach and the sky blend together to heighten the visual effect of this acclaimed oil painting.
PD Photo: The Bather (La Baigneuse) by Paul Raphael Montford (1868-1938), an English-born sculptor, who was active in Australia and a winner of the gold medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1934.
‘Young bather playing with his dog’ (Jeune baigneur jouant avec son chien), marble sculpture by French sculptor Antoine Laurent Dantan, also known as Dantan the Elder (1798-1878), made in Rome in 1833 and exhibited at the Salon of 1835, dimensions: height 1.05 m (3 ft. 5 ¼ in.), width 59 cm (23 in.), depth 58 cm (22 ¾ in.), purchased in 1835, located at Department of Sculptures, Richelieu, ground floor, room 32, Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
La Toilette (1869-70), oil on canvas painting by French Impressionist painter Jean Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France.
Here below are a few oil-on-canvas paintings by French painter Léon Jean Bazille Perrault (1832-1908), who exhibited at the Salon from 1863 onwards.
Image: The Wave (alternate names: ‘La Vague’ or ‘Fala’) oil painting by French painter Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924).
Image: La Vague (1908) oil painting by French painter Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924).
