Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture 1848-1936
Dr Jessica Priebe
18 &19 June 2014
Lecture summary: This lecture considers the evolution of the bathing nude as a subject in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French art.
Slide list:
1.Titian, Diana and Acteon, 1555-1559, oil on canvas, 184.5 x 202.2, National Gallery, London 2. Gustave Courbet, The Bathers, 1853, oil on canvas, 227 x 193, Musée Fabre, Montpellier *3. Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863, oil on canvas, 208 x 265.5, Musée d’Orsay, Paris 4. Giorgione, Pastoral Concert, 1509, oil on canvas, 110 x 138, Musée du Louvre, Paris 5. Raimondi after Raphael, The Judgment of Paris, 1517-2, engraving, 29.2 x 43.6, The Met, NYC 6. Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus, 1863, oil on canvas, 225 x 130, Musée d’Orsay 7. Gustave Courbet, Woman in the Waves, 1868, oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54, The Met, NYC 8. William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Wave, 1896, oil on canvas, 121 x 160.5, private collection 9. Woman’s Bathing Suit, 1858, engraving 10. Bathing Machine, C19, photograph, Time Life Magazine *11. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862, oil on wood, 108 x 108, Musée du Louvre 12. Ingres, The Valpinçon Bather, 1808, oil on canvas, 146 x 98, Musée du Louvre 13. Edgar Degas, The Tub, 1886, pastel on cardboard, 60 x 63, Musée d’Orsay 14. Torii Kiyonaga, Two Women at the Bath, (detail), c.1780, colour woodblock, Musee Guimet, Paris 15. Degas, Woman Bathing in Shallow Tub, 1885, charcoal and pastel, The Met, NYC *16. Gustave Caillebotte, Man at his Bath, 1884, oil on canvas, 145 x 114, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 17. Renoir, Bather with a Griffon, 1870, oil on canvas, 184 x 115, São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil 18. Renoir, Anna, 1876, oil on canvas, 92 x 73, Pushkin Museum, Moscow 19. Renoir, Torso before the Bath, c.1875, oil on canvas, 63 x 81.5, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia 20. Renoir, Blonde Bather, 1881, oil on canvas, 65.7 x 81.8, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown *21. Renoir, The Large Bathers, 1884-87, oil on canvas, 117.8 x 170.8, Philadelphia Museum of Art *22. Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, 208 x 249, Philadelphia Museum of Art 23. Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907, oil on canvas, 92.1 x 140.3, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Reference:
Richard R. Brettell, Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation (Oxford History of Art), 1999.
Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (Pantheon Books), 1956.
Linda Nochlin, : The Visceral Eye (Harvard University Press ), 2006.
Aruna D'Souza, Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint Penn State Press , 1999.
Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse 1909-1954 (Penguin), 2005
Paul Hayes Tucker, M n ' ‘Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe’ (Cambridge University Press), 1998.
Images:
Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863, oil on canvas, 208 x 265.5, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862, oil on wood, 108 x 108, Musée du Louvre
Gustave Caillebotte, Man at his Bath, 1884, oil on canvas, 145 x 114, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Renoir, The Large Bathers, 1884-87, oil on canvas, 117.8 x 170.8, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, 208 x 249, Philadelphia Museum of Art