Bathers Playing with a Crab — About This Work
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1897
About the Work
In Bathers Playing with a Crab, Renoir returns to the bather motif that occupied him repeatedly in his later career. The figures are placed within a warm, loosely painted landscape, with the small crab providing a specific moment of observation and play.
The painting's softer, more continuous handling differs from the broken brushwork associated with Renoir's earlier Impressionist period. Flesh, foliage and ground are brought together through related warm tones rather than sharply separated.
The Work
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Bathers Playing with a Crab
Date: c. 1897
Medium: Oil on canvas
Recorded dimensions: 65.7 × 54.6 cm
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1939.269
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 60 × 80 cm.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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