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Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir)[edit]

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Original – Les Grandes Baigneuses, or "The Large Bathers", by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted between 1884 and 1887.
Reason
A major painting by Renoir, it introduces a period in which Renoir focused on painting nudes.
Articles in which this image appears
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir), Bathing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nude (art)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm still trying to figure out if Grandes in Les Grandes Baigneuses means "large", as in "The Large Bathers" (or the large women), or "grand", or "wonderful", something like "The Wonderful (Lovely) Bathers", or even whether it was a reference to the large size of the painting, which is 3' 10" × 5' 5". In English, "The Large (Women) Bathers" has a kind of clunky sound. I'm wondering if Grandes was more a reference to the sculptural quality of the women than a reference to their size. – Corinne (talk) 02:07, 16 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
As in statuesque? Je ne sais pas. But probably it doesn't mean anything as inelegant as "The fat bathers." Sca (talk) 15:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Corinne, Now I see that the article says models for "the women standing in the stream in the background posed in the large." Rather mystified by that phrase – could it simply mean outdoors? Sca (talk) 17:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Sca I was mystified by it, too. See Talk:Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir)#Description, item (b), and Coldcreation's reply. Maybe it does mean "outdoors". Isn't there another phrase used to describe painting outdoors? There's en plein air, which I guess means "in the open air", or just "in the open". Perhaps en plein air was translated "in the large" instead of "in the open" (or [in the] outdoors). Now I'm wondering if I should go ahead and change "in the large" to "in the open" or "outdoors". Corinne (talk) 23:20, 16 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Well, "in the round" can mean something like that. Consult a French-speaker. Sca (talk) 02:32, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
None of the sources I've checked mention that any of the models posed outdoors. The French article has no mention of it either. Coldcreation (talk) 05:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have an idea about what "in the large" means? Sca (talk) 15:19, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No I don't. Translated to French, au large, means offshore in English. I've never heard such an expression (in the context of modeling) used in the arts. Coldcreation (talk) 19:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Huh...when I view that,it appears to be titled 'A Meat Stall With The Holy Family Giving Alms'-not the most accurate(or appealing)description of Susanna having a splash about. Lemon martini (talk) 23:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Jobas (talk) 14:35, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Grandes almost never means fat. It could mean tall, great, big, etc. It probably refers to the size of the painting. Cézanne made a painting with the same name.– Yann (talk) 19:18, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, piling on. Brandmeistertalk 12:02, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Luminous - Wolftick (talk) 21:17, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Or are they voluminous? Sca (talk) 15:10, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French - The Large Bathers - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 23:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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