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 3010-x2a
Baigneuses devant une montagne
1902–06
Alternate titles: Baigneuses; Bathers; Weibliche Badende (Baigneuses)
Rewald (W607); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1108): 1900–06
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, page from the EH II sketchbook
5 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.6 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Europe;
Private collection, Europe;
Exhibition History
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 118, ill., as Weibliche Badende (Baigneuses), 1902-06, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, The Society of the Four Arts, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works from a British Collection, 1986–87, no. 6, ill.
Castle Museum, Norwich, United Kingdom, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works from a British Collection, 1987, no. 15.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 92, pl. 202, lent by Private collection, Eppinghoven.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 12.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1108, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuses.
Cassou, Jean. Cézanne: Les baigneuses - huit aquarelles reproduites en facsimilé. Paris: Editions des quatre chemins, 1947.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C IV, p. XXXIII (page missing), unidentified.
Waldfogel, Melvin. "A Problem in Cézanne's 'Grandes Baigneuses.'" The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 204, fig. 37.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 607, ill.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, fig. 11, p. 199 (as missing), as possibly a page removed from the sketchbook.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. p. 86, p. 279, no. 41, ill. before 1905.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 181, fig. 132, as Bathers, dated 1894–1906.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
Sketchbook Philadelphia II, 1872–95 (3010)
The front and back covers are of linen-covered board. Notation on back endpaper "LII x 2", indicating 52 recto and verso sheets. The pages are numbered in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto ("a") in a soft blue-gray pencil. The sketchbook is unbound.
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Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneuses devant une montagne, 1902–06 (FWN 3010-x2a), page from the EH II sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1590 (accessed on January 22, 2025).
