Emile René MÉNARD (1861/62-1930). "Bathers at sunset". Pastel signed lower right. Height : 61.5 cm - Width : 84 cm Old handwritten label on the back mentioning the title and Havard framing in Paris. Note: a major figure of French neoclassicism, Emile René Ménard, the son of a painter-philosopher surrounded by the painters of the Barbizon School, was immersed in a humanist culture that sensitized him to nature. Inspired by Antiquity and the Old Masters, he developed an art in which nature and the human figure interact in a quest for harmony and serenity. Our work perfectly embodies this ideal, the scene featuring female bodies shaped by the glow of the setting sun.