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 3002-33a
D'après C.-J Vernet: baigneuse vue de dos
1884–87
Alternate titles: After C.-J. Vernet: woman bather seen from the back; Baigneuse d'après Vernet; Etude d'après Les Baigneuses de Joseph Vernet; Female Bather, after Vernet
Chappuis (676)
Graphite on wove paper, p. 33 from the EH I sketchbook
4 9/16 x 7 3/16 in. (11.6 x 18.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 41, ill. p. 59, as Baigneuse d'après Vernet, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne: Carnets de Dessins, 2 vols. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1951, C I, p. 33 (unidentified).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, cat. no. 236, fig. 34 (page erroneously numbered).
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 676, ill., as After C.-J. Vernet: woman bather seen from the back, page erroneously numbered.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 97 (Sketchbook I; page 33 recto), ill., as Female Bather, after Vernet.
Cuzin, Jean Pierre et al. Copier créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, fig. h, as Etude d'après Les Baigneuses de Joseph Vernet.
Notes
The figure derives from Joseph Vernet's Women Bathers or Morning in the Louvre.
The pose is similar to one of the female bathers in FWN916/R256.
See also Raimondi's print The Judgement of Paris.
Claude-Joseph Vernet, Le matin: les baigneuses (Women Bathers), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Photo: Michel Urtado; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)
Marcantonio Raimondi, after RaphaelThe Judgment of Paris, engraving.
Related
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Sketchbook Philadelphia I (EH 1), 1882–90 (3002)
Notation on back endpaper "47 x 2", indicating the number of 47 recto and verso sheets. Some of these sheets have been removed.
The page numbers are written in Arabic numerals at the lower right corner of most of the recto pages in a soft bluish-gray pencil.
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facing: missing sheet (3002-32b)
current: D'après C.-J Vernet: baigneuse vue de dos, 1884–87 (3002-33a)
Record last updated June 7, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après C.-J Vernet: baigneuse vue de dos, 1884–87 (FWN 3002-33a), p. 33 from the EH I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2348 (accessed on July 11, 2025).
