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)
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Tim Nighswander/Imaging Art
FWN 908
La Baignade
c.1875–77
Alternate titles: Badende; Baigneurs
Rewald (250): c.1875–77; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (272): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (19 x 27 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 193, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 20, as Badende, c. 1877, lent by H. Mettler-Weber, St. Gallen.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 26, pl. 83.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 35.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 272, ill. vol. II, as La Baignade.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Two Unpublished Cézanne Self-portrait Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 762 (September 1966), p. 476, 1876-78.
Ballas, Guila. "Cézanne et la Galerie d'Apollon au Louvre." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1980), p. 264, fig. 17, as La Baignade.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, ill. b/w.
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. 250, ill. vol. 2, as La Baignade.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 13c p. 31, p. 291, no. 107, ill., as La Baignade, c. 1877.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 197, fig. 5.6, as La Baignade.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 21, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 262, ill., as Baigneurs.
Notes
FWN 3006-04a relates the seated figure on the foreground to the figure of a River from the Apollo Ceiling by Delacroix.
Related work
Record last updated March 7, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Baignade, c.1875–77 (FWN 908)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=253 (accessed on January 21, 2025).
