The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3003-31a
Baigneur descendant dans l'eau
c.1886–89
Alternate titles: An einer Uferböschung sitzender männlicher Akt; Baigneur assis; Bather stepping down into the water
Venturi (1274); Chappuis (962): 1886–89
Graphite and ink on blue wove paper, p. XXXI from the CP I sketchbook
4 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (12 x 20 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 148, as Baigneur assis, c. 1877, lent by Adrien Chappuis, Paris.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 110, ill., as Baigneur descendant dans l'eau, 1886-89, lent by M. and Mme A. Chappuis, Tresserve. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 145, ill. p. 241, as An einer Uferböschung sitzender männlicher Akt, 1886-1889, lent by Private collection, France.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, David to Cézanne, Master Drawings from the Prat Collection, September 22–December 5, 2010, no. 97, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 97, ill. lent by Véronique and Louis-Antone Prat, Paris.
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris, La force du dessin: chefs d’œuvre de la collection Prat, June 16–October 4, 2020, no. 181, ill., as Baigneur descendant dans l'eau.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 93, Véronique and Louis-Antoine Prat, Paris.
Published References
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 1 p. 11.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1274, ill. vol. II, as "Page XXXI".
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 962, ill., as Bather stepping down into the water.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 300, no. 196, ill. 1886-89.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 215; vol. 2, p. 149, as Bather stepping down into the water.
Alonso Cano, Cristo muerto sostenido por un ángel (The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Cezanne probably knew this work from a wood-engraved reproduction in Charles Blanc's 1869 Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole.
![Baigneur descendant dans l'eau, c.1886–89 (FWN 3003-31a). After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].](https://cdn.panopticoncr.com/ceza001/catalogue_images/supp_sm/Ch524_suppl.png)
After Alonso Cano, Le Christ mort, wood engraving printed in Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole espagnole, Paris: Veuve J. Renouard, 1869, p. [171].
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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Record last updated September 21, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur descendant dans l'eau, c.1886–89 (FWN 3003-31a), on blue wove paper, p. XXXI from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=2648 (accessed on March 28, 2025).
