Catalogue entry

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

15 x 18 in. (38 x 45.8 cm)

Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne

Vollard archives: photo no. 370

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de la Ville de Genève

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- male bathers / biagneurs »
Technique and Condition:
- signed work »

Provenance

Victor Chocquet, Paris;

Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);

Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 27

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Maurice Leclanché, Paris

Mme Jeanne Raunay, Paris

Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Sam Salz, New York

Nate B. and Frances Spingold, New York;

Sotheby's, London, Nov. 29, 1976, no. 13, ill.

Jean Lullin, Geneva;

Fondation Jean-Louis Prévost, Geneva;

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de la Ville de Genève

Exhibition History

1910–11 London

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.

1931a Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.

1935b Paris

Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.

1952 Chicago and traveling

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.

1959e New York

Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 13, ill. lent by Spingold.

1960b New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection, March 23–June 19, 1960.

1967a New York

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.

1989 Basel

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 28, pl. 78.

2000 Vienna and traveling

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).

2011 Baden

Stiftung Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland, May 8–June 10, 2011, no. 6, ill., p. 29.

2012 Düsseldorf

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.

2014a Madrid

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 15, ill.

2015 Winterthur

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.

2017 Martigny

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.

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 98, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Denis 1910

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 1911

Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911, ill. opposite p. 26, as Bathers.

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. 33.

Rivière 1933

Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 110.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 273, ill. vol. II, as Les Baigneurs au repos.

Rewald 1937a

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 1951

Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.

Bernheim de Villers 1954

Bernheim de Villers, Gaston. Un ami de Cézanne. Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1954, pl. [4], as Nus.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 36.

Reff 1959

Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne: The Enigma of the Nude." Art News 58, no. 8 (November 1959), p. 28, fig. 7.

Rewald 1961

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 389, ill.

Waldfogel 1965

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 1969

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 1976

Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 52, ill.

Rewald 1986d

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 1986b

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 1989

Fondation Jean-Louis Prévost. Mille Objets pour Genève. Geneva, 1989, p. 71, ill.

Krumrine 1992

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 et al 1993

Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, fig. 1.

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. 259, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs au repos, I.

Bach 2000

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.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 153, fig. 98.

Ballas 2002

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 2004

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 223, fig. 107.

Feilchenfeldt 2005h

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 2006

Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 76, fig. 30, as Les Baigneurs, dated 1876.

Robins 2010

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 2012

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 2020

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, Ireson and Patry 2021

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.

Related work

Record last updated April 25, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

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 April 25, 2024).