Bathers Playing with a Crab

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Bathers Playing with a Crab, c. 1897. oil on canvas.

oil on canvas · Framed: 75.5 x 85.5 x 10 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: Bathers Playing with a Crab
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Date: c. 1897
Medium: oil on canvas
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.)
Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1841–1919

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.