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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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 922
Trois baigneuses
1876–77
Alternate titles: Bathers; Three Bathers
Rewald (359): 1876–77; Venturi revised: 1873–75; Venturi (270): 1875–77
Oil on canvas
10 x 13 1/4 in. (25.4 x 33.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3793, des femmes nues à l'huile se baignent dans une rivière sous des arbres formant voûte, 24 x 33 cm (50 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 125, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1880
Provenance
Published References
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 140.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 68.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 270, ill. vol. II, as Trois baigneuses.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 82, ill. p. 199 (analysis pp. 332–38).
Franz, H.G. "Cézanne und die Abkehr von Impressionismus." Forschungen und Fortschritte (February 1956), p. 54.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 117.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Via: pl. 3.
Ballas, Guila. "Unknown Sources for Cézanne's Women Bathers." In Norms and Variations in Art: Essays in Honor of Moshe Barasch. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983, pp. 185, 187.
Distel, Anne. "Dr. Barnes in Paris." In Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 3, as Bathers.
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. 359, ill. vol. 2, as Trois baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 9a p. 20, ill. pp. 46 (detail), 50 and 240 (detail), p. 276, no. 11, ill., as Trois baigneuses, c. 1875.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 9, pp. 96–104, as Three Bathers (catalogue notes by M. Lucy).
Notes
This painting is closely related to [Trois baigneuses, 1876–77 (923)]. Several drawings are also connected to the work (FWN 3003-08a and FWN3003-08b). The standing figure at left recurs in a number of compositions of female bathers.
Record last updated April 27, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Trois baigneuses, 1876–77 (FWN 922)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=355 (accessed on January 25, 2025).
