Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Long-haired Bather
| Year of creation: | 1895–1896 |
| Original size: | 65.0 cm x 82.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris |
The nude stands in shallow water, her body slightly turned and her head in profile. Long red-gold hair falls over her shoulder to her hips, and she holds a white cloth in front of her with both hands. A straw hat with pink fabric lies at the lower right, and behind her yellow-green foliage opens out, painted almost without detail.
The painting was made in 1895 and 1896. In these years Renoir built the body from soft transitions between warm orange, pink and white, without a hard contour line, while the setting is only a curtain of colour that places the figure in light. The hair carries the design: it leads the eye from the head downwards across the full height of the canvas.
The original measures 65.0 cm x 82.0 cm and is oil on canvas. It is at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris under inventory number RF 1963-23; the painting belongs to the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection.
Our version is a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas. Every canvas is painted individually to order, so no two are exactly alike. It is available in eight upright sizes, from 50 x 60 cm to 120 x 150 cm. It is a painting in oils, not a print.
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