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 3018-11b
Baigneuses sous un pont
1900–06
Alternate titles: Baigneuses sous le pont; Bathers by a Bridge; Bathers under a Bridge; Bathers Under the Bridge; Le pont; The Bridge
Rewald (W601); Venturi revised: 1902–06; Venturi (1115): c.1895
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. XXII from the CP IV sketchbook
8 1/4 x 10 11/16 in. (21 x 27.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, no. 53, as Bathers Under the Bridge (lent by Lillie Bliss).
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.
Museum of the French Institute, New York, Cezanne, Redon and Others,, March 16–April 3, 1921, no. 12.
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 13. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 18A.
Carnegie Art Institute, Pittsburgh, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, March 13–April 10, 1935, no. 27.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Drawings and Watercolors from the Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 21–June 11, 1935, no. 4.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, [unknown title], 1951.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 97, ill., as The Bridge, c. 1895, lent by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Twenty-five Master Drawings, March 26–April 23, 1962, no. 14. Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 15–July 1, 1962.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 50, pl. XXXVIII, as Baigneuses sous un pont, 1895-1900, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 23, ill.
Cabinet des Dessins, Musee du Louvre, Paris, Dessins francais du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, de David à Picasso, October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974, no. 9, pl. 69, as Baigneuses sous un pont.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 117, ill., pl. 197, as Bathers under a Bridge, c. 1900, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints, June 23–August 23, 1981.
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. 91, pl. 203.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 39, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 131, ill., (dated c. 1900), lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art; shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 146, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 103, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Published References
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 18a.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1115, ill. vol. II, as Le pont.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 99a, as Bathers under a Bridge.
Pantheon. Cezanne 10 Water Colors. New York: Pantheon, 1947, no. [07], as Bathers under a Bridge, c. 1895, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980, fig. 793.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 601, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 316, fig. 164.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 505, fig. 3, as Baigneuses sous un pont, 1900-1906.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 174.
Los Llanos, José de. L'Aquarelle de Dürer à Kandinsky. Vanves [Paris]: Editions Hazan, 1996, p. 184, ill. p. 187.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 9.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 38, fig. 10.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 194, fig. 143.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 367, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 167, fig. 63.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 199, fig. 137, dated 1906.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 138, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 96, ill., as Bathers by a Bridge.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 430, ill., as Baigneuses sous le pont, verso not mentioned.
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)
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses sous un pont, 1900–06 (FWN 3018-11b), p. XXII 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=1584 (accessed on March 24, 2025).
