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 3007-45b
Baigneurs
c.1888
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende Männer; Badende Männer I; Baigneuses; Bathers; The Bathers
Rewald (W132); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (902): 1882–94; Rivière: c.1888; Vollard: 1882; Ratcliffe: probably 1888–89
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. XLV verso removed from the BS III sketchbook
4 15/16 x 8 3/16 in. (12.6 x 20.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 3, ill., as Badende Männer I, lent by Jean Renoir, Paris.
Ancien international Sporting club de Monte-Carlo, Monaco, De Cézanne à nos jours, March 2–19, 1939, no. 2, ill. p. 9, as Baigneuses, lent by Georges Wildenstein.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 54, as Bathers, c. 1882-85, lent by Wildenstein.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Private Collectors, 1963, no cat. issued.
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 6, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n., pp. 76–77, ill., as The Bathers. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919, p. 114.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed, as Baigneuses.
Omnibus, Almanach auf das Jahr 1931. Berlin and Düsseldorf: Galerie Flechtheim, 1931, ill. p. 169, as Badende Männer, Renoir, Marlotte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 902, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 206, as Baigneuses.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 20.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. "The Bathers of 1887 and Renoir's Anti-Impressionism." The Art Bulletin 55, no. 1 (March 1973), p. 119n47.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 132, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 294, no. 142, ill. c. 1888.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. 28, ill. p. 149.
Shone, Richard. "Acquisitions (2000–10) of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 843, fig. XIV.
Haldemann, Anita (ed.). The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 211, ill. p. 266, catalogued but not shown.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
Sketchbook Basel III, 1878–1881 and 1897–1900 (3007)
This sketchbook probably contained fifty-three or fifty-four sheets. The pages are numbered on the "a" side in Roman numerals at bottom right. Some sheets were sold separately in the 1930s and have been identified based on stains from an oil-binding agent or rust spots left when the sketchbook was unbound.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, c.1888 (FWN 3007-45b), p. XLV verso removed from the BS III sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1109 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
