Renoir - Bather arranging her Hair

Bather arranging her Hair was painted in 1893.

Type of the painting - Oil on canvas.

This picture brings out the difference of style between the Harsh and the Iridescent Periods, on the one hand, and Renoir’s Impressionist Period on the other. No longer bound by the outlines that previously set them off, forms now are modeled by a tide of elongated, freely flowing brushstrokes that wash up against them, shaping and building them, whereas the impressionist brushstroke all too often dissolved and volatilized form. This was Renoir’s solution to the conflict of form versus light–a technique enabling him both to build form and to integrate it into the atmospheric light.

It is a part of the following sets: Renoir and The Nude, The Bathers