Auguste Renoir - By the water. Near the lake 1880

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From Art Institute of Chicago:
As part of an effort to shape the future of scholarly publishing, the Getty Foundation in 2009 invited the Art Institute of Chicago and eight other museums to participate in a venture called the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative. The Art Institute is pleased to present the second catalogue produced from this venture: Renoir: Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Entries on the 25 artworks include high-resolution imaging, in-depth curatorial essays and conservation reports.

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