Catalogue entry

FWN 2013

Baigneur aux bras écartés

1874–77

Alternate title: Bather with outstreched arms

Chappuis (386); Venturi (1261): 1875–85

Graphite on laid paper

6 15/16 x 4 5/8 in. (17.6 x 11.8 cm)

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (NMH 303/1919)

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- male bather / baigneur »
Animals:
- bird / oiseau »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (1919)

Exhibition History

1997–98 Stockholm

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 33, ill., pp. 100–101 (dated c. 1878).

Published References

Vollard 1914

Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 9, ill.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1261, ill. vol. II, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XVI, listed p. 180, ill. p. 6.

Reff 1962a

Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), p. 188 note 13a.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 386, ill., as Bather with outstreched arms.

Bjurström 1986

Bjurström, Per. French Drawings III, Nineteenth Century. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1986, no. 1351.

Related work

Additional material / links

collection.nationalmuseum.se (http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=67946&viewType=detailView)

Record last updated February 22, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur aux bras écartés, 1874–77 (FWN 2013)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2044 (accessed on May 3, 2025).