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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© Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève, inv. n° 1985-0017
FWN 924
Les Baigneurs au repos
1875–76
Alternate titles: Baigneurs; Baigneurs au repos; Baigneurs au repos, I; Bathers; Bathers at Rest; Bathers in Repose; Les Baigneurs; Nus; Quatre nus; The Bathers
Rewald (259): 1875–76; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (273): 1875–76
Oil on canvas
13 7/8 x 18 1/8 in. (35.2 x 46 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 19, as Baigneurs, lent by Bernheim-Jeune, Paul Cassirer and Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 30, ill. lent by Spingold. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 13, ill. lent by Spingold.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection, March 23–June 19, 1960.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from Private Collections, July–September 1967, no. 18, lent by Mrs. Nate B. Spingold.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 28, pl. 78.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 61, ill., as Baigneurs au repos, I, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland, May 8–June 10, 2011, no. 6, ill., p. 29.
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, El Greco und die Moderne, April 28–August 12, 2012, listed p. 405, ill. p. 165, as Bathers in Repose, 1876-1877, lent by Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 15, ill.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 14, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 92, ill. lent by Musées d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 98, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan, June 28–October 12, 2025, no. 109, ill., as Baigneurs au repos.
Published References
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), pl. III p. [215] (no. 82), as The Bathers.
Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 26, as Bathers.
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. 33.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 273, ill. vol. II, as Les Baigneurs au repos.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Baigneurs.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [4], as Nus.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Enigma of the Nude." Art News 58, no. 8 (November 1959), p. 28, fig. 7.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 389, ill.
Waldfogel, Melvin. "Caillebotte, Vollard and Cézanne's 'Baigneurs au repos.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 65, periode 6 (February 1965), p. 119, fig. 3 p. 117, as Les Baigneurs au repos.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 49, fig. 36 p. 81; p. 84 listed under no. 27.
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 52, ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 137, fig. 74, as Bathers.
Brettell, Richard. "The First Exhibition of Impressionist Painters." In The New Painting. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 195–96, fig. 8.
Fondation Jean-Louis Prévost. Mille Objets pour Genève. Geneva, 1989, p. 71, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's 'Restricted Power': Further Reflections on the 'Bathers.'" The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1074 (September 1992), fig. 13 p. 589, as Baigneurs au repos.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, 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. 259, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs au repos, I.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, fig. 21, as Baigneurs au repos, I.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 291, no. 108, ill., as Baigneurs au repos, I, c. 1876.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 223, fig. 107.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézanne: Vollendet, Unvollendet." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 280, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 76, fig. 30, as Les Baigneurs, dated 1876.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), pp. 784-785, fig. 7.
Zani, Laura. "Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève : mécènes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, dans Genava." Genava 60 (2012), no. 3, p. 9, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 266, ill, as Quatre nus, installation photograph from 1931 exhibition, p. 123.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 102, fig. 5, as Bathers at Rest.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Baigneurs au repos, 1875–76 (FWN 924)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=260 (accessed on July 3, 2025).
