Bathers Surprised
| Bathers Surprised | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | William Mulready |
| Year | 1853 |
| Type | Oil on panel, nude art |
| Dimensions | 59 cm × 44 cm (23 in × 17 in) |
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Bathers Surprised is an 1853 nude oil painting by the Irish artist William Mulready. It depicts a group of naked young women surprised while bathing in a stream. The foreground figure is inspired by the Italian Old Master's Titian's Venus Anadyomene.[1]
Mulready had earned his reputation during the Regency era for genre paintings depicting scenes of everyday life. This painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris, the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 in Manchester and the International Exhibition of 1862 in London. Today the work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, having been acquired in 1911.[2]
References
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[edit]- Smith, Alison. The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art. Manchester University Press, 1996.
- Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.
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