We've said it before: having a body -- whether tall or short, cis or transgender, ostomized, hirsute, voluptuous, small-boned or whichever adjective feels most apt -- is the only prerequisite for having a "beach body."
Still, baring more skin than you're used to come June can make some feel less than confident. To help, we gathered 28 instances of many-bodied babes in paintings that illustrate the beauty in the human form, regardless of how you happen to take up space in this world.
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For centuries, art students have studied faces and bare bodies as practice for understanding proportion and human form, so what better place to look for beachy celebrations of our buck-naked selves?
Paul Gauguin, "Nude woman among the waves," 1889
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Otto Mueller, "Three nude figures in the wood," 1911
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Gustave Courbet, "The Spring," 1868
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Charles Maurin, "Les fleurs du mal," 1891
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Unknown, "Tomb of the Diver"
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Paul Gauguin, "Aha Oe Feii? (Are you jealous?)," 1892
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Felix Vallotton, "The Bath: Summer Evening," 1982-83
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Otto Mueller, "Bathers" circa 1917
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "The Bathers," 1918-19
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Bernardino Luini, "Young women bathing," 1520-1525
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Pan Yuliang, "After the bath," 1964
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Renato Birolli, "Naked Woman with Black Veil," 1941
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Group of swimmers," 1909
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923), "Ninos jugando en la playa Valencia"
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Emile Bernard, "Bathers," 1889
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Girl under a Japanese Umbrella," 1909
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Francois Boucher, "Diana leaving the bathroom," 1742
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Reclining Blue Nude in a Straw Hat," 1909
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Paul Cézanne, "Bathers," 1898-1905
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Gustave, Courbet, "The Woman in the Waves," 1868
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Paul Gauguin, "Tahitian women on the beach," 1892
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Paul Cezanne, "The Diver," 1867-70
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Pablo Picasso, "Female Nude at the Beach," 1963
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