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 2020
Baigneurs au repos
1875–77
Alternate titles: Bathers at Rest; Etude de baigneurs; Männliche Badende am Ufer (Baigneurs au repos); Study for the Bathers
Rewald (W61); Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (899): 1875–77
Ink and watercolor on paper (fragment)
4 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (11.4 x 17.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Galerie Hoshi-Seiyaku, Japan, Collection Shirakaba-ha, March 5–13, 1921.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 110, ill., as Männliche Badende am Ufer (Baigneurs au repos), 1875-77, lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 43, ill. lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 75, pl. 79.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 101, ill., as Baigneurs au repos. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Tokyo/Paris. Chefs-d'oeuvres du Bridgestone Museum of Art, collection Ishibashi Foundation (Masterpieces from Bridgestone Museum of Art, Collection Ishibashi Foundation), April 5–August 21, 2017, no. 41, ill.
Published References
Shirakaba 12, no. 2 (February 1921), fig. 7, Page illustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 195, fig. 155.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, fig. 29, pl. XX, as Study for the Bathers.
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, fig. 6.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 899, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs au repos.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, pl. XX fig. 29, as Study for the Bathers (fig. 24).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 11.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 61, ill.
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection. Tokyo, 1985, cat. no. P-33, ill. p. 127, as Bathers at Rest.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 55 (cropped).
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 294, no. 139, ill. c. 1876.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 429, ill. (sheet cropped to image), as Etude de baigneurs (erroneously lists Miss Davies as buyer).
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 92, fig. 10, as Bathers at Rest.
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Record last updated January 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs au repos, 1875–77 (FWN 2020), (fragment)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1038 (accessed on May 2, 2025).