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 3018-03a
Baigneurs
c.1890 (possibly later)
Alternate title: Swimmers
Rewald (W133); Venturi revised: 1885–88; Other: Druick: c.1895
Watercolor on wove paper, p. V from the CP IV sketchbook
8 5/16 x 10 11/16 in. (21.1 x 27.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Watercolors and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, September 6–November 6, 1988.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 85, pl. 171.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, July 29–October 21, 1996.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 26, ill. p. 49, as Baigneurs, around 1890, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 94, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 91, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Published References
Druick, Douglas. "Cézanne, Vollard, and Lithography: The Ottawa Maquette for the 'Large Bathers' Colour Lithograph." Bulletin of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 19 (1972), p. 21, fig. 16.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 133, ill. and color pl. 19.
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1991, pl. 365, as Swimmers.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 295, no. 149, ill. 1895-97.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 216; vol. 2, p. 149, as Baigneurs .
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 615, no. 1470, ill. in color, as Baigneurs , c. 1888.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 302, ill. (erroneous owner).
Alonso Cano, Cristo muerto sostenido por un ángel (The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Cezanne probably knew this work from a wood-engraved reproduction in Charles Blanc's 1869 Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole.
![Baigneurs, c.1890 (possibly later) (FWN 3018-03a). After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/ceza001/catalogue_images/supp_sm/Ch524_suppl.png)
After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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Record last updated August 9, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, c.1890 (possibly later) (FWN 3018-03a), p. V from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1111 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
