Seated Bather

between 1903 and 1906

Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919

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About the Artwork

Late in his career, the impressionist artist Renoir painted a series of opulent female nudes. The entire canvas is filled with warm light and soft colors, creating a luminous dreamlike atmosphere for the female nude, who lifts her hair in a gesture that is both intimate and timeless.

Title Seated Bather

Artwork Date between 1903 and 1906

Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Life Dates 1841-1919

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 45 3/4 × 35 inches (116.2 × 88.9 cm) Framed: 54 1/2 × 43 1/2 × 3 inches (138.4 × 110.5 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.177

Markings

Signed Signed, lower right: Renoir

Provenance

the artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir;
1914-1935, purchased by Josse Hessel (Paris, France);
1935, (Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London, England) and (Bignou Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle, au profit de l'Association génerale des Mutilés de la guerre. Exh. cat., Galerie Paul Rosenberg. Paris, 1917, cat. no. 58.

Französische Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus. Zürich, 1918, cat. 2.

Rivière, G. Renoir et ses amis. Paris, 1921, p. 268; after p. 184 (ill.).

Endell, A. "Raum und Körper." Kunst und Künstler 23. pp. 302-306; p. 305 (ill.) [as 1903].

Cinquante ans de peinture française 1875-1925. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1925, no. 69 [dated 1903].

Bernard, T. "Jos Hessel." La Renaissance (January 1930): p. 11 (ill.).

Renoir. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1933, pp. 45-46, cat. 108, (pl. 53).

Guenne, J. "La Religion de Renoir." L'Art vivant, no. 174 (July 1933): p. 297.

"Nuits de Paris." L'Art vivant (1933): pp. 297, 303 (ill.) [as 1904].

Renoir (1841-1919). Exh. cat., Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery. London, 1935, cat. 29 [as about 1902-1903].

Renoir. Exh. cat., Bignou Gallery. New York, 1935, cat. 11 (ill.) [as 1903].

Barnes, A.C., and V. de Mazia. The Art of Renoir. New York, 1935, pp. 183-184, 463.

Morsell, M. "Bignou holds exhibition of Renoir's Art." Art News, December 7, 1935, pp. 3-4 (ill.).

Gaunt, W. Renoir. London, 1952, (pl. 80) [as La Grande Baigneuse assise aux jambes croisées].

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1970, pp. 8, 9, 19, 21, 29 (ill.).

Cummings, F.J., and C.H. Elam, ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 159.

Nishimura, T., ed. Renoir. Tokyo, 1972, (pl. 53).

Exhibition of Pictures from Museums of the United States of America. Exh. cat., Hermitage Museum, Pushkin Museum, State Museum of Ukrainian Art, and State Museum of the Belorussian SSP. Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk, 1976, cat. 11 (ill.).

Chefs d'oeuvre des musées des Etats-Unis: de Giorgione à Picasso. Exh. cat., Musée Marmottan. Paris, 1976, cat. 28 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 128-129 (ill.).

Renoir. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, Grand Palais, and Museum of Fine Arts. London, Paris, and Boston, 1985, p. 308, cat. nos. 102-103.

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Municipal Museum of Art, and Musuem of Modern Art. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989, pp. 96, 174-175, 221-222, cat. 64 (ill.).

Wagner, Monique. From Gaul to De Gaulle: An Outline of French Civilization. New York, 1989, p. xiv, (pl. 41).

Message 1995. Exh. cat., Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Toyota, 1995, pp. 42, 199-200, cat. 6 (ill.).

Renoir: Modern Eyes. Exh. cat., Kwamura Memorial Museum of Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art. Sakura, Sendai, and Sapporo, 1999, p. 100, cat. 38 (ill.).

Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 80-81, 143 (ill.).

Dumas, A. Renoir's Women. Exh. cat., Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus, 2005, p. 80 (fig. 60).

Bell, Esther, and George T. M. Shackelford, ed. Renoir: The Body, The Senses. Exh. cat., Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with the Kimbell Art Museum. New Haven and London, 2019, cat. 51b (ill.).

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