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Catalogue entry

FWN 1802
La Baignade
June 20, 1859
Alternate titles: Bathing; Lettre de Cézanne à Zola; Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (20 Juin)
Chappuis (38)
ink on a letter to Emile Zola
Private collection, France

Keywords

Provenance
Émile Zola, Médan, France;
Mme Alexandrine-Emile Zola, Paris;
Eugène Fasquelle, Paris;
M. et Mme Le Blond-Zola, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 173.
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 82, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (20 Juin), lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 5, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
1952–53 Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 44, as Lettre de Cézanne à Zola, avec un dessin de Baigneurs; June 20, [1859 ?], lent by M. J. Le Blond.
Published References
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, p. 30, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 44, fig. 61.
Rewald 1959b
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Spring Books, 1959, p. 6, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 38, ill., as Bathing.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 7, ill., as La Baignade.
Gowing 1988a
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Early Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, as La Baignade.
Krumrine 1989b
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 69 p. 106.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 19, fig. 8.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 236, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 16.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 170.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 17, fig. 4.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 11a p. 25, p. 301, no. 210, ill.
D'Souza 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 50.
Cézanne 2013
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 81, ill.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 360, fig. 162.
Mitterand 2016
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 6.
Record last updated February 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Baignade, June 20, 1859 (FWN 1802), on a letter to Emile Zola." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1684 (accessed on May 3, 2025).