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 910
Baigneur aux bras écartés
c.1876
Alternate titles: Baigneur; Homme nu; Nu de jeune baigneur; Pan
Rewald (252): c.1876; Venturi revised: 1872–77; Cézanne fils: 1880–85; Venturi (262): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
9 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (24 x 14 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 210 and 257, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880–85 ; in another hand: 1880
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 12, as Homme nu, lent by P. Bonnard.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 22, as Baigneur, lent by Bonnard.
Chateau de Fontainebleau, Salle du Jeu de Paume, Fontainbleau, France, Peintures contemporaines, August–September 1945, no. 13, as Pan, tentative identification.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 22, pl. 98.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 262, ill. vol. II, as Nu de jeune baigneur.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Bather with Outstretched Arms." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (March 1962), pp. 176-177, 180 and 182.
Geist, Sidney. "Cézanne: Metamorphosis of the Self." Artscribe, no. 26 (December 1980), p. 10, fig. 1.
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. 252, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneur aux bras écartés.
Notes
Dorival (1948) connected the pose of the bather with Daniel by Marius Mercié in the Louvre; Reff (1962) links it with a Dancing Satyr in the Louvre. Pierre Bonnard, who owned it, made a lithograph after it for the Album Bernhim-Jeune (1914).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur aux bras écartés, c.1876 (FWN 910)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=255 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
