Auguste Renoir - Algerian girl 1881

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From Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
Renoir traveled to the French colony of Algeria twice in 1881, seeking the dazzling light and exotic subject matter made famous (and marketable) by Eugène Delacroix, a great Romantic painter, some fifty years before. Frustrated by the reluctance of Muslim women to pose for him, Renoir often hired Pieds-Noirs—French nationals living in Algeria—to pose as models, dressing them in native costumes and darkening their hair with his brush.

Cézanne painted Bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous
compositions of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. Late in life,
he painted three large-scale female bather groups. In such works, Cézanne
was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the
landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. - art-Cezanne.com

Judith and the Head of Holofernes 1901 - Judith and the Head of Holofernes
(also known as Judith I) is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt created in 1901. It
depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes.
When Klimt tackles the biblical theme of Judith, the historical course of art has
already codified its main interpretation and preferential raffiguration... - art-Klimt.com

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Auguste Renoir 1841-1919