Bathers

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio after Luca Penni
Satyr spying on Bathing Nymphs
ca. 1530
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Virgil Solis after Heinrich Aldegrever
Public Bath
before 1562
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Eustache Le Sueur
Polyphilus with Bathing Nymphs
(scene from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili)
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Pietro Liberi
Bathsheba Bathing
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Sebastiano Ricci
Bathsheba Bathing
ca. 1715-35
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Jean Raoux
Diana Bathing
ca. 1721
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Joseph-Marie Vien
Callisto emerging from the Bath
1763
oil on canvas
Musée Henri Martin, Cahors

Eugène Lepoittevin
Sea Bathing at Étretat
1866
oil on canvas
Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes

Paul Cézanne
Bathers
1892
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Ludwig von Hofmann
Bathers
ca. 1900
watercolor on paper in artist-designed frame
Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt

Edvard Munch
Bathing Men
1908
oil on canvas (sketch)
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Bathers in a Room
ca. 1909-10
oil on canvas
Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken

August Macke
Bathing Women
1913
oil on canvas
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Alf Lundeby
Bathers in a Landscape
1914
oil on canvas
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

Otto Müller
Bathers
1926
oil on canvas
Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Ola Billgren
Bathroom Interior
1994
oil on canvas
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Chorus of Furies [catching sight of Orestes]:  

Here's the man himself! He's taken sanctuary

wrapping himself around the image of the immortal goddess

and wanting to stand trial for his act of violence.

But that is not possible. A mother's blood on the ground

is hard to bring back up – papai! – 

wet blood that is shed on to the earth and disappears.

No, you must give in return a thick red liquid from your limbs

for us to slurp from your living body: from you

may I drink the nourishment of a draught horrid to drink!

And having drained you dry while you live, I shall haul you off below,

so that you may pay in suffering the penalty of your matricide;

and you will see there such other mortals as have grievously sinned,

acting impiously towards a god, or a host or guest,

or their dear parents,

each receiving what is appropriate to satisfy justice.

For Hades is the great assessor of mortals

beneath the earth;

he watches all their acts, and the tablets of his mind record them.

– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)