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 900
Le Baigneur au rocher
1867–69 (possibly earlier)
Alternate titles: Badender in Landschaft; Baigneur au rocher; Bather and Rocks; Bather at a Rock; Homme nu; Le Baigneur au rocher, d'après Courbet; The Bather
Rewald (29): 1867–69 (possibly earlier); Venturi revised: 1866–67; Venturi (83 (detail)): 1864–1868; Cooper: 1864–65; Gowing: 1861 (Burlington) and circa 1860–62 (London)
Mural transferred to canvas
66 x 41 1/2 in. (167.6 x 105.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Audin, Aix-en-Provence, France, [Exposition rétrospective réunissant des œuvres de Loubon, Monticelli, Du Veyrier ... et Turner], May 11–25, 1912.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, May 3–September 15, 1921, no. 3, ill., detail, as The Bather, lent by anon. [de Zayas].
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Major French Paintings, November 26–December 15, 1951, no. 5.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 3, ill. lent by Rosenberg. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Ingres to Lautrec, October 27–November 22, 1952, no. 15.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 3–April 15, 1956, no. 76, ill., p. 120. Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, April 28–May 27, 1955; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 12–July 1, 1956; Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, opening September 8, 1956; City Art Museum, St. Louis, October 19–November 19, 1956; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2–30, 1956; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opening March 8, 1957; Institute of the Arts, Detroit; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee, Treasures from the Chrysler Museum, June 12–September 5, 1977, no. 40, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, April 13–May 13, 1978, no. 26, ill.
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum, May 31, 1986–January 18, 1987, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 31–September 14, 1986; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, November 6, 1986–January 18, 1987.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 10, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 230, ill. p. 58, as Le Baigneur au rocher (167.6 x 105.4 cm).
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 6, ill., as Le Baigneur au rocher.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 18, ill.
Musée Granet and Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Aix-en Provence and Marseille, France, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Cézanne à Matisse [Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence]; de Van Gogh à Bonnard [Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Marseille], June 13–October 13, 2013, no. 102, ill., p. 171 (dated 1860–69), as Le Baigneur au rocher, shown in Aix.
Musée Fabre, Montpelier, France, Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870): la jeunesse de l'impressionnisme, June 25–October 16, 2016, no. 86, ill., as Le Baigneur au rocher, 1860-1866, lent by Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, November 15, 2016–March 5, 2017; National Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 9–July 9, 2017.
Jewish Museum, New York, Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, August 20, 2021–January 9, 2022.
Published References
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 41, as Badender in Landschaft.
Le Curieux. "Quatre panneaux décoratifs de Cézanne." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1918), p. 34, as Homme nu.
Carroll, Raymond. "Art Atrocities Puzzles Critics." Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia), September 7, 1921, p. 5, as The Bather.
F.[énéon], F.[élix]. "Ku Klux." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 20 (October 15, 1921), ill. p. 535 (as a Gauguin).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 83 (detail), ill. vol. II, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. III, listed p. 175 (juxtaposed with The Bathers by Courbet in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Reff, Theodore. "Reproductions and Books in Cézanne's Studio." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), note 57 p. 309.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1176 (February 1967), p. 100, no. 353, ill., as Le Baigneur au rocher, c. 1864-68.
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. 184, n. 23 (compares Courbet, F. 140, to this bather; Cézanne owned a photo of that painting).
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Early Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: The Early Years 1859-1872. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 88.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paris and London: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1117 (April 1996), fig. 47 p. 266, as Baigneur au rocher, c. 1867-69.
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. 29, ill. vol. 2 and p. 23, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 32, fig. 24, as Bather and Rocks.
Coutagne, Denis. "Approche contradictoire d'un thème: Le Jas de Bouffan chez Cézanne." In Cézanne aujourd'hui. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997, p. 80.
Gervais, David. "A Picture by Cézanne: 'Le Grand Baigneur.'" The Cambridge Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1997), fig. 2.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 22, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 278, no. 92, ill. (mural before division), p. 303, no. 216, ill., as Le Baigneur au rocher, d'après Courbet, c. 1867-69.
Tuma, Kathryn A. "Cézanne and Lucretius at the Red Rock." Representations vol. 78, no. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 75, fig. 2.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 62, ill. in color.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 8, fig. 5, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 81, fig. 8, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 5.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 114, ill.
Perrin, Paul. "Scène d'été." In Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870): la jeunesse de l'impressionnisme. Paris: Flammarion, 2016. Exhibition catalogue, p. 143, fig. 89 p. 142 (cat. no. 86), as Le Baigneur au rocher, 1860-1866.
Freudenberg, Inken. "The Chimerical Pursuit of Art, Paul Cézanne and Gustave Flaubert: An Affinity Explored." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 6.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, figs. 101, 117 (digital reconstitution of mural before division), 225 pp. 117, 132, 240 (fig. 227 digital reconstitution of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon after 1867 p. 243).
Elderfield, John. "Excavations." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 9, fig. 9, as Bather at a Rock, dated 1867–69.
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. 294, fig. 1, as Bather and Rocks, dated c. 1860–66.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tiefenschürfungen: Cézannes Fels- und Steinbruchmalerei." Kunstchronik 74, no. 6 (June 2021), fig. 3, as Le Baigneur au rocher.
Notes
See remarks for no. 5.
Gustave Courbet, Les Baigneuses, 1853. Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Mural painted on the wall of the Jas de Bouffan before it was removed and divided into three sections
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Baigneur au rocher, 1867–69 (possibly earlier) (FWN 900), Mural transferred to canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=45 (accessed on April 27, 2025).
