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 918
Trois baigneuses
1874–75
Alternate titles: Femmes nues; Three Bathers; Tres bañistas
Rewald (258): 1874–75; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Cézanne fils: 1879; Venturi (266): 1875–77; Ratcliffe: painted by autumn 1875; Machotka et al: 1876–77
Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. (19 x 22 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3319, Trois baigneuses, vues au bord de l'eau. Paysage vert, 19 x 22 cm (290 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 158, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1879
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 13, pl. 103.
Musée d’Unterlinden, Willi Baumeister et la France, August 4–December 5, 1999, no. 8, as Trois baigneuses. Traveled to: Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etiénne, France, December 22, 1999–March 26, 2000.
National Museum of Art, Beijing, Trésors impressionnistes des collections nationales françaises, October 10–November 24, 2004, no. 45, ill., as Three Bathers. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Shanghai, November 8, 2004–January 25, 2005; Museum of Art, Hong Kong, February 5–April 10, 2005.
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 32, ill., as Trois baigneuses.
Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain, Eleven Invited Works, October 10, 2013–February 02, 2014, pp. 32 and 103, ill., as Three Bathers.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 13, ill.
Fundación MAPFRE, Casa Garriga i Nogués, Barcelona, Spain, Renoir entre mujeres: del ideal moderno al ideal clásico. Colecciones de los museos d´Orsay y de l´Orangerie, August 17, 2016–January 8, 2017, no. 60, ill., as Trois baigneuses.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919, ch. VIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 266, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 84, no. 24.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, ill.
Catalogue sommaire illustré des nouvelles acquisitions du Musée d’Orsay: 1980-1983. Lacambre, Geneviève et Thiébaut Philippe, publication directors, coordination. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, p. 14, no. 18, ill., as Trois baigneuses, c. 1875-77.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Musée d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume: douze œuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), pp. 139-141, fig. 12.
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 116, ill., as Trois baigneuses, c. 1875-77.
Lloyd, Christopher, and Richard Thomson. Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 16.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 134, ill.
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 35, ill.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 92, as Tres bañistas, 1874.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 58.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 258, ill. vol. 2, as Trois baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 38, p. 276, no. 1, ill., as Trois baigneuses, 1873-74.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, figs. 31, 33, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 80; vol. 2, p. 74, as Trois baigneuses.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 169, pl. 64.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 100, pl. 57, catalogues notes, pp. 145–46.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "A Mellow Rekindling of Earlier Fires, Still Life and Metamorphosis, Early to Late Cézanne." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 249, ill., as Femmes nues.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 40.
Notes
This study of nudes was probably Victor Chocquet's first acquisition of a Cézanne. The collector was taken to Tanguy's by Renoir and on his return apparently said "How well that will go between a Delacroix and a Courbet!" Chocquet eventually owned three dozen canvases by the artist.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois baigneuses, 1874–75 (FWN 918)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
