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Catalogue entry

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)
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund)

Keywords

Provenance
Raphael Gérard, Paris
Louis Hodebert, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Georges Seligmann, Paris
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Exhibition History
1932 Norwich, Conn.
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, [unknown title], 1932, no no. listed.
1933 Northampton
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Watercolors, June 1933, no. 21.
1933c New York
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 15, as The Bather, lent by the Wadsworth Atheneum.
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 46, (dated ca. 1885–90), as The Bather, lent by Wadsworth Atheneum.
1946 Hartford
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Nude in Art, 1946, no. 10.
1949 Hartford
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Twenty-one years of Museum Collecting, 1949, no. 39.
1950 New London, Conn.
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, From Delacroix to the Neo-Impressionists, 1950, no no. listed.
1952 Chicago and traveling
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.
1958e New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1958, no no. listed.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 61, c. 1885-1890.
1961 Aix-en-Provence
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.)
1963f New York
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.
1967 Pasadena
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 5, ill.
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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.
1982 Tübingen and traveling
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.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 81, pl. 158.
1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 84, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
Published References
Duret 1906
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 43.
Scheffler 1913
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Jüngsten." Kunst und Künstler 11, no. 8 (1913), ill. p. 390.
Brieger 1923
Brieger, Lothar. Das Aquarell. Seine Geschichte und seine Meister. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1923, p. 379, ill.
Parnassus 1930b
Parnassus. Parnassus (April 1930), p. 46, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 903, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur debout, vu de dos.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XVI, listed p. 180.
Rousseau 1952
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. "Cézanne as an Old Master." Art Digest (April 1952), p. 52, ill.
Schmidt 1952
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 5.
Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 16.
Wadsworth Atheneum Handbook 1958
Wadsworth Atheneum Handbook. Hartford, 1958, p. 136, ill.
Taillandier 1961
Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 80.
Andersen 1963a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Watercolor in Cézanne's Artist Process." Art International 7 (May 25, 1963), p. 25, ill.
Longstreet 1964
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Cézanne. Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Company, ill.
Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 36.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 140.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 128, ill.
Lloyd and Thomson 1986
Lloyd, Christopher, and Richard Thomson. Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 11, fig. 11.
Erpel 1988
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, no. 16.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 8, ill.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 295, no. 152, ill. c. 1880.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 182, fig. 123.
Lloyd 2019
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.

Baigneur debout vu de dos, c.1885 (FWN 2032). Roman, c. 20 BC, Statue funéraire et honorifique de Marcellus formerly known as Germanicus, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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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Record last updated November 4, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 April 25, 2024).