Catalogue entry

FWN 616

Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt

c.1870

Rewald (173): c.1870; Venturi revised: 1868

Oil on canvas

14 5/8 x 17 7/8 in. (37 x 45.5 cm)

Private collection, Aix-en-Provence

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- female nude(s) / femme nue(s) »
Figure compositions
Historical and Allegorical:
- Bathsheba / Bethsabée »
Studies
After paintings and works on paper:
- Rembrandt »

Provenance

Private collection, Aix-en-Provence

Exhibition History

2011–12 Paris

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 24, ill., p. 65, as Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt, 1871-74, lent by Private collection.

2013 Ornans

Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 35, ill., as Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt, 1870.

Published References

Rewald 1996

Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 173, ill. vol. 2, as Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt.

Reff 1997a

Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, expresses his doubts about the attribution.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 23; vol. 2, p. 40, as Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt.

Lewis 2011b

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Bethsabée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 55, ill., as Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt, dated 1871–74?

Notes

The Rembrandt original entered the Louvre in 1869 as part of the La Caze collection.

Rembrandt van Rijk, Bethsabée au bain, 1654. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Record last updated December 16, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Bethsabée, d'après Rembrandt, c.1870 (FWN 616)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=180 (accessed on May 2, 2025).