Bathers Playing with a Crab
c. 1897
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Bathers Playing with a Crab, c. 1897. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Oil on fabric; framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm (29 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 54.6 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.269
- Maker/Artist
- Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm (29 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 54.6 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower right: Renoir
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1939.269
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, Art: The International Language, The Venetian Tradition, Renoir, Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting, Renoir in the 20th Century, A Summer at the Water's Edge: Leisure Activities and Impressionism, Renoir: Intimacy, Renoir: The Body, The Senses, CMA. French Paintings of the Later XIX Century (1921), no cat., lent by Ralph Coe.<br>Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; cma. Exhibition of Paintings: Edouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot (1924-25), no. 38, lent by R. M. Coe; repr. opp. title page (no cat. for Cleveland showing).<br>CMA. French Art since 1800 (1929), in CMA Bulletin 16 (1929): 162.<br>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum. Paintings by Manet and Renoir (1933), in The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 29 (December 1933): 19, Baigneuses, 1897, Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland.<br>CMA. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), no. 307, pl. 66.<br>New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings (1937), 9, no. 56 (repr.).<br>New York, Museum of Modern Art. Art in Our Time (1939), no. 52 (repr.).<br>Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery. Emotional Design in Painting (1940), no. 2.<br>New York, World's Fair. Masterpieces of Art (1940), no. 331, as dated 1897.<br>New York, Duveen Galleries. Centennial Loan Exhibition 1841-1941: Renoir (1941), 19, no. 64, pl. 64, as dated 1892. <br>New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co. Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces by Delacroix and Renoir (1948), 73 (repr.), no. 24.<br>Omaha, Joslyn Memorial Art Museum. Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition-The Beginnings of Modern Painting: France 1800-1900 (1951), 5.<br>Fort Wayne (Ind.) Art School and Museum. Picture of the Month (May 1953), no cat.<br>CMA. The Venetian Tradition (1956), no. 37 (as dated 1897), pl. 56.<br>Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900 (1969), no. 71 (repr.).<br>Kunsthalle Tübingen. Renoir (1996), no. 86 (repr.).<br>San Diego Museum of Art (6/29/2002 - 9/15/2002) and El Paso Museum of Art (11/3/2002-2/16/2003), "Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting"<br>RMN (organizer); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (9/23/2009-1/4/2010), LACMA (2/14/2010-5/9/2010), and Philadelphia Museum of Art (6/12/2010-9/5/2010): "Pierre-Auguste Renoir"<br>RMN (organizer); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (4/27/2013 - 9/23/2013): "A Summer at the Water's Edge: Leisure Activities and Impressionism"<br>Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (10/18/2016 – 1/22/2017) and Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain (2/7/2017 – 5/15/2017): "Renoir: Intimacy"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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