After the Bath | Etter badet  1883

During the 1880s Auguste Renoir began exploring a type of painting that his contemporaries showed little interest in: classical nudes. With their naturalistic bent, most impressionists considered this genre to be an outmoded, academic exercise, but Renoir chose to appropriate the great classical heritage, from Raphael via Rubens to Ingres, in an attempt to cultivate a styl...