La Circassienne au Bain is a Neoclassical oil painting by the French artist Merry-Joseph Blondel, completed in 1814 and first shown at the Paris Salon that November, depicting a life-sized nude Circassian woman bathing in an idealized classical setting. The painting was being shipped aboard the RMS Titanic when it sank in 1912 and has never been recovered; a surviving passenger's claim for its loss, valued at 100,000 dollars, was described as the most highly valued single item of luggage or cargo lost in the disaster.
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Year Created LocationLost with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 1 Medium
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Loss on the RMS Titanic
The painting was lost with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912
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La Circassienne au Bain is a Neoclassical oil painting by the French artist Merry-Joseph Blondel, completed in 1814 and first shown at the Paris Salon that November, depicting a life-sized nude Circassian woman bathing in an idealized classical setting.
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La Circassienne au Bain ("The Circassian Lady in the Bath"), also known as Une Baigneuse ("A Bathing Lady"), was a large Neoclassical oil painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel depicting a life-sized young naked Circassian wom
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- Wikidata Q18154154, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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