Progressive Studies For The Variation Bathers

Black and white study with a single figure. Measurement unknown.

Pastel Study for the Bathers, 21 3/4 X 28". Eight-color pastel, Private collection.

(Figure third girl right). 18 ½" X 25 ½". Pencil black, red, and white chalk, watercolor. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Study for The Bathers, 1884-1885. 41" X 64" Pencil drawing, J. LaRoche collection. (Left Image)

Variation of The Bathers, 1884-1903, 44" X 65 ⅞", Renoir Museum.

Renoir's Studies for the Great Bathers

Black and white study with a single figure. Measurement unknown.

Pastel Study for the Bathers, 21 3/4 X 28". Eight-color pastel, Private collection.

(Figure third girl right). 18 ½" X 25 ½". Pencil black, red, and white chalk, watercolor. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Black and white study with a single figure. Measurement unknown.s

Renoir's Self-Inspiring Studies for The Grand Bathers & the Variant Bathers

These two preliminary drawings, the core for the final The Grand Bathers and The Variant Bathers paintings, are the only two primary studies in the first two steps of both final masterpieces

Detail, left, Classical Pastel and Watercolor Study for the Bathers, above, 1883 - 1885, 21 ½ in x 28 in, on guillotage paper, Private Collection, created the color, poses, and proportions for the front two figures of the final masterpiece.