Auguste Renoir's Reclining Nude, painted in 1883, reflects a shift in his figure painting toward firmer contour and more classical structure, following his exposure to Italian Renaissance painting on a trip the previous year — a departure from the softer, more atmospheric brushwork of his earlier Impressionist figure studies. The warm, even light and simplified setting keep attention on the modeling of the body itself. Oil on canvas, the picture entered the collection through the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg bequest in 2002, alongside the same collector's 1877 portrait of Eugène Murer. Scion notes that works arriving together from a single named collection, as these did, allow their provenance to be verified jointly, reinforcing confidence in each individual picture's documented history.