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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)
Catalogue entry
© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
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
Henri Rouart, Paris;
Rouart Collection, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, Dec. 9–11, 1912, no. 92
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (Dec. 11, 1912);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Published References
Dell 1912
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 1912
Frantz, H. "La Collection Henri Rouart." L'Art Décoratif XXVIII (December 5, 1912), p. 349, ill.Ricci 1912
Ricci, Seymour de. "La Vente Rouart—Le triomphe de Degas et de Manet." Gil Blas 34 (December 10, 1912), p. 2 (mentioned).Alexandre 1912b
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 1912c
Alexandre, Arsène. La Collection Henry Rouart. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1912, p. 70, listed, as Les Baigneuses, ill. between pp. 164 and 165.Borgmeyer 1913
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 275, ill., as The Bathers.Dell 1913
D[ell], R[obert] E. "Art in France." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs vol. 22, no. 118 (January 1913), p. 240.Stuart 1917
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 330, ill., as The Bathers.Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed, ill. p. 101, as Baigneuses.Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 56, as Etude de Baigneuses.Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 482.De Mazia 1927
De Mazia, Violette. "L'art ancien à la Fondation Barnes." Les Arts à Paris, no. 14 (October 1927), p. 20, ill.Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 128, 129, 456.Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 33, ill.Barnes and de Mazia 1935
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Renoir. Merion, PA: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1935, pp. 91n, 490.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 383, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.Barnes and de Mazia 1939
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 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 33, ill.Chappuis 1962
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 1973a
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 1974
Dorival, Bernard. "Les omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipschitz." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1974), fig. 63.Ballas 1983
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 1984–86
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), p. 78, pl. 93.Distel 1993
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 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. 364, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses.Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 277, no. 16, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, 1880-82.Dolkart and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 160–61, ill. p. 156, comments by Judith Dolkart.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, no. 11, pp. 96–104, as Five Bathers (catalogue notes by M. Lucy).Related
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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 April 19, 2024).
