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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Camille Pissarro, Paris (Nov. 19, 1895)
Octave Mirbeau, Paris
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris;
L'Art Moderne, Lucerne
Hans Mettler, St. Gallen (1929)
Mettler Collection, Christie's, London, July 2, 1979, no. 8, ill.
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Pissarro buys.1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 20, as Badende, c. 1877, lent by H. Mettler-Weber, St. Gallen.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 26, pl. 83.Published References
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
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.Waldemar-George 1931
Waldemar-George. "The Twilight of a God." Apollo 14 (August 1931), fig. VIII.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 272, ill. vol. II, as La Baignade.Andersen 1966
Andersen, Wayne V. "Two Unpublished Cézanne Self-portrait Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 762 (September 1966), p. 476, 1876-78.Ballas 1980
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 and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, ill. b/w.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. 250, ill. vol. 2, as La Baignade.Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 142, fig. 90.Ballas 2002
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 2003
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 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 21, ill.Dauberville 2020
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.
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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 April 19, 2024).
