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© Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation
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)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Nicolas-Auguste Hazard, Orrouy (Feb. 1896);
Hazard Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, France, Dec. 1–3, 1919, no. 260, ill.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (December 4,1919
Shirakaba Group, Japan (1921)
Marubeni Corp. Osaka Formes Gallery, Osaka [Tsutomu Sugiura, Saitama] (1969)
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Artizon Museum, Tokyo (2020)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1921 Tokyo
Galerie Hoshi-Seiyaku, Japan, Collection Shirakaba-ha, March 5–13, 1921.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
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.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 75, pl. 79.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2017b Paris
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 1921
Shirakaba 12, no. 2 (February 1921), fig. 7, Page illustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 195, fig. 155.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, fig. 29, pl. XX, as Study for the Bathers.
Klein 1934
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, fig. 6.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 899, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs au repos.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 96.
Nicodemi 1944
Nicodemi, Giogio. Cézanne: 76 Disegni. Milan: Görlich, 1944, no. 18, ill.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, pl. XX fig. 29, as Study for the Bathers (fig. 24).
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36.
Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 11.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 61, ill.
Bridgestone Museum 1985
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection. Tokyo, 1985, cat. no. P-33, ill. p. 127, as Bathers at Rest.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 116, ill.
Krumrine 1995
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Du plongeon aux baigneuses." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 55 (cropped).
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 18.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 152, fig. 97.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 294, no. 139, ill. c. 1876.
Dauberville 2020
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 July 2, 2025).