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Catalogue entry

FWN 2027
Etude de baigneuse s'essuyant
1879–82
Alternate titles: Baigneuse; Study of a woman bather drying herself
Chappuis (518); Venturi (1254): 1879–82
Graphite on paper
9 1/16 x 11 in. (23 x 28 cm)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Werner Feuz, Bern
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)
Exhibition History
1979 Rome
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 55, ill., p. 64.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 119, pl. 118.
2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 87, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1254, ill. vol. II, as Baigneuse.
Chappuis 1962
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 94, ill.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 518, ill., as Study of a woman bather drying herself.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 284, no. 79, ill. 1875–76.
Etude de baigneuse s'essuyant, 1879–82 (FWN 2027). Engraving after Delacroix's, L'Education de la vierge, published in KL'Artiste, June 22, 1845, after page 128, on the verso of this drawing.
Engraving after Delacroix's, L'Education de la vierge, published in KL'Artiste, June 22, 1845, after page 128, on the verso of this drawing.

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Record last updated September 10, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude de baigneuse s'essuyant, 1879–82 (FWN 2027)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2184 (accessed on May 3, 2025).