The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 2032
Baigneur debout vu de dos
c.1885
Alternate titles: Baigneur; Baigneur debout, vu de dos; Standing Bather seen from the Back; Stehender männlicher Rückenakt (Homme nu debout, vu de dos); The Bather
Rewald (W128); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (903): 1879–82; Ratcliffe: c.1885; Other: Andersen: c.1880
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper
8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (22.3 x 17.1 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, [unknown title], 1932, no no. listed.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Watercolors, June 1933, no. 21.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 15, as The Bather, lent by the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 46, (dated ca. 1885–90), as The Bather, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Twenty-one years of Museum Collecting, 1949, no. 39.
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, From Delacroix to the Neo-Impressionists, 1950, no no. listed.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 29, ill., as The Bather, 1879-82, lent by the Wadswort Atheneum, Hartford. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1958, no no. listed.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 61, c. 1885-1890.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 26, as Baigneur, 1885-1887, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (Conn.)
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 10, pl. VIII, as Baigneur debout, vu de dos, 1879-82, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 5, ill.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 50, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 161, as The Bather, lent by Wardsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 114, ill., as Stehender männlicher Rückenakt (Homme nu debout, vu de dos), c. 1885, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 81, pl. 158.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 103, ill., as Baigneur debout vu de dos, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 84, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 43.
Brieger, Lothar. Das Aquarell. Seine Geschichte und seine Meister. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1923, p. 379, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 903, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur debout, vu de dos.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. "Cézanne as an Old Master." Art Digest (April 1952), p. 52, ill.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 5.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 16.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Watercolor in Cézanne's Artist Process." Art International 7 (May 25, 1963), p. 25, ill.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 140.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 128, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher, and Richard Thomson. Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 11, fig. 11.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 8, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 295, no. 152, ill. c. 1880.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 182, fig. 123.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 94, ill., as Standing Bather seen from the Back.
Notes
Suggested sources for this figure have been Luca Signorelli's drawingThe Living Carrying the Dead and the back of the marble sculpture in the Louvre L'Orateur romain. Cezanne incorporated this standing male figure seen from behind in a number of paintings and works on paper.
Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Hervé Lewandowski; © 1996 RMN
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur debout vu de dos, c.1885 (FWN 2032)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1105 (accessed on October 31, 2024).
