# The Bathers

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## Artwork

- Artist: [COURBET, Gustave](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 227 x 193 cm

## Commentary

The picture illustrates a theme of nude bathing much taken up by the classical painters. But its opulent, baroque vision offered an alternative to academic paintings well before Manet showed his model Victorine Meurent in Déjeuner sur l&#39;herbe \(1863\).

## Related artworks

- [A Burial at Ornans](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/a-burial-at-ornans-r703ddb06c33628>)
- [After Dinner at Ornans](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/after-dinner-at-ornans-re4c40071de1a96>)
- [Artist at His Easel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/artist-at-his-easel-r3751e58c3b9728>)
- [Beach near Trouville](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/beach-near-trouville-r8c05c206e18111>)
- [Burial at Ornans \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/burial-at-ornans-detail-rdc8cf6b93f1458>)
- [Cliffs at Étretat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/cliffs-at-tretat-r82eee44c1a5226>)
- [Courbet in his Cell at Sainte-Pélagie](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/courbet-in-his-cell-at-sainte-plagie-rd04a3bcd244101>)
- [Farmers of Flagey on the Return from the Market](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/farmers-of-flagey-on-the-return-from-the-market-ra64c8e0f4fbb7d>)
- [Firemen Running to a Fire](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/firemen-running-to-a-fire-r23a32075dd670a>)
- [Flower Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/flower-still-life-rcd060b37d99321>)
- [Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/landscape-rd668ef71161049>)
- [Landscape with a Dead Horse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/courbet-gustave-r8cf09f93876d55/landscape-with-a-dead-horse-r13e4043c003b84>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)