After the Bath (Renoir)

After the Bath (French: La sortie du bain, lit. 'Getting out of the bath') is a painting from 1910 by the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The painting is now in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.[1][2]

After the Bath
Artist	Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year	1910
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	94.5 cm × 75.2 cm (37 3/16 in × 29 5/8 in)
Location	Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Provenance

The painting was purchased from the artist in Paris, by Paul Durand-Ruel in October 1910. On December 18, 1915, Albert C. Barnes (the founder of the institution)[3][4] purchased it from the latter.[1]

References

Notes

1. "Pierre-Auguste Renoir After the Bath (La Sortie du bain) 1910. Oil on canvas". Barnes Foundation.
2. Richard J. Wattenmaker (2010). American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation. ISBN 9780300158779.
3. “Biographical Note,” Presidents Files, Albert C. Barnes Correspondence. The Barnes Foundation Archives, 2012. https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/collection/library-archives/finding-aids.
4. "Historical Note," Directors of the Arboretum, Laura Leggett Barnes, The Barnes Foundation Archives, 2012. https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/collection/library-archives/finding-aids.

Sources

• André, Albert. Renoir. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1923, plate 42.
• Barnes, Albert C. and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, 189, cat. data no. 433.
• The Art of Renoir. Merion, Pa.: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1935, 123 n, 124 n, 125 n, 126, 168 n, 195 n, 198 n, 328 ill., cat. data no. 247.
• De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973): 9, pl. 30.
• "The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981–1983): 112, pl. 125 (installation).
• "Form and Matter." Vistas 5, no. 2 (1991): 24–5, pl. 54.
• Basler, A. and Charles Kunstler. La Peinture Indépendante en France: De Monet à Bonnard. Paris: G. Crès et cie, 1929, plate 27 ill.
• Besson, G. Auguste Renoir. Paris: G. Crès et cie, 1932, pl. 22 ill.
• Fezzi, E. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Renoir: période impressioniste, 1869–1883. Paris: Flammarion, 1985, no. 706 ill.
• French Period Furniture & Decoration. Auction cat. Sotheby Parke Bernet. New York, June 15, 1950, no. 117. [on related sketch]
• Lucy, Martha and John House. Renoir in the Barnes Foundation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012: 18, 161, 177, 180 ill., 181, 185, 203, 306-7 cat. 51.
• Meier-Graefe, Julius. Renoir, 1929, p. 336, no. 354. Renoir, peintre du nu, préface d'Henri de Régnier. Paris, Les éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1923, ill, n. p.
• Wattenmaker, Richard J. and Anne Distel. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, 1993, 86, 87 ill.