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 939
Cinq baigneuses
1877–78
Alternate titles: Baigneuses; Bathers; Etude de Baigneuses; Five Bathers; Les Baigneuses; The Bathers
Rewald (364): 1877–78; Venturi revised: 1878–79; Venturi (383): 1879–82; Rivière: 1873
Oil on canvas
16 x 16 7/8 in. (40.6 x 42.9 cm)
Provenance
Published References
D[ell], R[obert] E. "Art in France, The Rouart Collection." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs vol. 22, no. 116 (November 1912), p. 119.
Frantz, H. "La Collection Henri Rouart." L'Art Décoratif XXVIII (December 5, 1912), p. 349, ill.
Ricci, Seymour de. "La Vente Rouart—Le triomphe de Degas et de Manet." Gil Blas 34 (December 10, 1912), p. 2 (mentioned).
Alexandre, Arsène. "La collection Henri Rouart." Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions, no. 132 (December 1912), ill. p. 28, as Les Baigneuses.
Alexandre, Arsène. La Collection Henry Rouart. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1912, p. 70, listed, as Les Baigneuses, ill. between pp. 164 and 165.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 275, ill., as The Bathers.
D[ell], R[obert] E. "Art in France." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs vol. 22, no. 118 (January 1913), p. 240.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 330, ill., as The Bathers.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed, ill. p. 101, as Baigneuses.
De Mazia, Violette. "L'art ancien à la Fondation Barnes." Les Arts à Paris, no. 14 (October 1927), p. 20, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 128, 129, 456.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 33, ill.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Renoir. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1935, pp. 91n, 490.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 383, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 74, p. 200, ill. (analysis pp. 330–38).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 33, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 72, fig. 33.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973), p. 10, pl. 17.
Dorival, Bernard. "Les omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipschitz." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), fig. 63.
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, p. 188, n. 35, and p. 189, n. 42.
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), p. 78, pl. 93.
Distel, Anne. "Dr. Barnes in Paris." In Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 32, fig. 6, 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. 364, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 16, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1880-82.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 160–61, ill. p. 156, comments by Judith Dolkart.
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. 11, pp. 96–104, as Five Bathers (catalogue notes by M. Lucy).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneuses, 1877–78 (FWN 939)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=360 (accessed on February 7, 2025).