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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cagnes
Jean Renoir, Paris and Marlotte
Wildenstein Galleries, New York (Nov. 1954)
Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg, Palm Springs (May 1955);
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2002)
Exhibition History
1927e Berlin
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.1939 Monte-Carlo
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.1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 54, as Bathers, c. 1882-85, lent by Wildenstein.1963 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Private Collectors, 1963, no cat. issued.1969b London
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 6, ill.1989 Philadelphia
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, 1991.2014–15a New York
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 1919a
Vollard, Ambroise. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919, p. 114.Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 217, listed, as Baigneuses.Cicerone 1927a
"Berliner Ausstellungen." Der Cicerone 19, no. 9 (1927), p. 288, ill., as Badende.Omnibus 1931
Omnibus, Almanach auf das Jahr 1931. Berlin and Düsseldorf: Galerie Flechtheim, 1931, ill. p. 169, as Badende Männer, Renoir, Marlotte.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 902, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs.Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 206, as Baigneuses.Neumeyer 1958
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 20.Neumeyer 1959
Neumeyer, Alfred. Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden. Stuttgart: Philip Reclam, 1959, fig. 4.White 1973
White, Barbara Ehrlich. "The Bathers of 1887 and Renoir's Anti-Impressionism." The Art Bulletin 55, no. 1 (March 1973), p. 119n47.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 132, ill.Ballas 2002
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 2009
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 2010
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 et al 2017
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
Record last updated October 2, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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&sketchbook=3007 (accessed on May 7, 2024).
