Auguste Renoir - Marie-Therese Durand-Ruel sewing 1882

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From The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown:
Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel was the eldest daughter of the influential art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who commissioned Renoir to paint each of his five children. She is shown engrossed in needlework, in the garden of her family's Normandy home. The delicate modulations of color and tone in the painting of her face and hands provide a striking contrast to the vigorous, sketchy brushwork of her surroundings.
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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