Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bathers Playing with a Crab, c. 1897
Oil on canvas
54.6 × 65.7 cm (21 ½ × 25 ¾ in.)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
After viewing Renaissance paintings on a trip to Italy in 1881, Renoir attempted to bring greater order and stability to Impressionism by merging flickering light effects with solid forms. He conveyed this new ambition in a series of paintings of nude bathers, a subject that preoccupied him from 1883 until his death in 1919. Avant-garde artists of the 20th century admired his ability to blend modernist and classicizing tendencies.
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