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Catalogue entry

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
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (accepted by the French government in lieu of Inheritance Tax, 1982) (RF 1982 40)

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Provenance
Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris
Victor Chocquet, Paris (1875);
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, France, July 1–4, 1899, no. 24 (as Naïädes)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Feb. 19, 1900)
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Feb. 19, 1900);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1982)
Exhibition History
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 13, pl. 103.
1999–2000 Colmar and traveling
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.
2004–05 Beijing and traveling
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.
2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 32, ill., as Trois baigneuses.
2013–14 Malaga
Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain, Eleven Invited Works, October 10, 2013–February 02, 2014, pp. 32 and 103, ill., as Three Bathers.
2015 Winterthur
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.
2016–17 Barcelona
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 1919a
Vollard, Ambroise. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919, ch. VIII.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 266, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 84, no. 24.
Reff 1977c
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.
Musée d'Orsay 1983
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 1984
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 et al. 1986
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 and Thomson 1986
Lloyd, Christopher, and Richard Thomson. Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 16, fig. 16.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 113, ill.
Teboul 1988
Teboul, Jacques. Les Victoires de Cézanne. Paris: Adam Biro, 1988, no. 46, ill.
Distel 1989
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 134, ill.
Kendall 1989a
Kendall, Richard. The History and Techniques of the Great Master Cézanne. London: Tiger Books International, 1989, p. 35, ill.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 63.
Bozal 1995
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 92, as Tres bañistas, 1874.
Krumrine 1995
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 58.
Sollers 1995
Sollers, Philippe. Le Paradis de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, 1995, p. 54-5, ill.
Rewald 1996
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 2002
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 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, figs. 31, 33, ill.
Machotka 2008
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 169, pl. 64.
Warman 2015
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 2017a
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 2020
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.
Cezanne 2021
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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Record last updated April 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 20, 2024).