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Catalogue entry

FWN 676
La Barque et les baigneurs
c.1890
Alternate titles: Baigneurs; Barque; Barque, baigneurs et baigneuses; Bathers; Boat and Bathers; La barca y las bañistas; La barque; La barque et les baigneurs; La barque et les baigneuses; Le bain or La barque et les baigneuses; Nymphes au bord de la mer; The Barque and the Bathers; The Boat and the Bathers
Rewald (644): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1897–98; Cézanne fils: 1880 and 1888; Venturi (583): 1890–94; Ratcliffe: 1888–89
Oil on canvas
11 13/16 x 48 13/16 in. (30 x 124 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. [152] and 153
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (Collection Jean Walter-Paul Guillaume (two outside fragments)) (RF 1960-12 and RF 1960-13 (outside fragments); RF 1973-55 (central fragment))

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 19, ill.
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Madame Jean Walter (Mme Paul Guillaume), Paris (three fragments)
Private collection, Paris (central fragment)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (central fragment bought by the Musées nationaux in 1973);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1973-1984, central fragment);
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (1960, two outside fragments; 1984, central fragment)
Exhibition History
1926b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, n.n.
1945c Paris
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Paysages d'eau douce, April 27–June 1945, no. 20, as Baigneurs.
1953 Minneapolis
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Classic tradition in contemporary art, April 24–June 28, 1953, no. 16, ill., as Bathers, c. 1900 (left fragment).
1966a Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 12 and 13, ill. (no. 12 left fragment, no. 13 right fragment).
1974b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 40, ill. in b/w, as La barque et les baigneurs.
1977–78 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, hors catalogue. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
1978a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, hors catalogue.
1979e Paris
Hôtel des Monnaies, Paris, Exposition rétrospective du 20e anniversaire du prix Victor Chocquet, March 23–April 6, 1979, n.n., as La barque et les baigneuses.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 53, pl. 174.
1998–2000 Tokyo and traveling
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 11, ill., as La Barque et les baigneurs. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
2000–02 Montreal and traveling
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 28, ill., and detail of the bathers on the right (not in Barcelona catalogue), as La Barque et les baigneurs, c. 1890. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
2001–02 Madrid
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Forma. El ideal clásico en el arte moderno, October 9, 2001–January 13, 2002, no. 24, p. 204, ill. p. 83, as La barca y las bañistas, c. 1890, lent by Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.
2003–2004 Toulouse
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 12, ill., as La Barque et les baigneurs.
2005 Bergamo
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 102–03, ill., as La Barque et les baigneurs.
2009–10 Roubaix
Musée André Diligent, la Piscine, Roubaix, France, Conversation anglaise: le groupe de Bloomsbury, November 21, 2009–February 28, 2010, no. 7, ill., as La barque et les baigneurs.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 142, ill.
2013 Caen
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France, Un été au bord de l'eau: loisirs et impressionnisme, March 27–September 29, 2013, no. 44, ill., as La Barque et les baigneurs, 1890.
2013–14 Tokyo and traveling
Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Impressionists at the Waterside: depicting urban resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy, October 22, 2013–January 5, 2014, no. 88, ill., as The Boat and the Bathers. Traveled to: City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, January 15–March 2, 2014; The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, March 11–May 11, 2014.
2015 Winterthur
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 27, ill.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 98, ill. lent by Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris.
2022 Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Le décor impressionniste: aux sources des nymphéas, March 2–July 11, 2022, no. 117, ill., pp. 170–71.
Published References
Kessler 1908
Kessler, Harry. Impressionisten. Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1908, fig. 50.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 80.
Bernheim-Jeune 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXVII.
Carnet des artistes 1917a
"Un panneau décoratif de Cézanne [Illustration]." Le Carnet des artistes: art ancien, art moderne, arts appliqués, no. 11 (1917), ill. p. 14.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 26.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, pp. 209, 217, listed.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 583, ill. vol. II, as La Barque et les baigneurs.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 218.
Roger-Marx 1955
Roger-Marx, Claude. "Le nu et la mer." Le jardin des arts (Paris), no. 11 (September 11, 1955), ill. p. 661, as La barque et les baigneuses.
Waldfogel 1962
Waldfogel, Melvin. "A Problem in Cézanne's 'Grandes Baigneuses.'" The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), pp. 200 and 203-204, fig. 30 (detail of the bathers on the left) and fig. 31.
Lemoyne de Forges et Allemand 1966
Lemoyne de Forges, Marie-Thérèse et Geneviève Allemand. "La collection Jean Walter - Paul-Guillaume." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, no. 1 (1966), fig. 3, fig. 4 (left fragment) and fig. 5 (right fragment), as Nymphes au bord de la mer.
Musée de l'Orangerie 1966
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 12, ill. (left fragment; no. 13, ill. (right fragment), as Nymphes au bord de la mer.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 69; p. 83, no. 19, p. 95, note 82.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 60 (left fragment) and p. 61 (right fragment), as Nymphes au bord de la mer.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 63, ill.
Adhémar 1974a
Adhémar, Hélène. "Cézanne dans les collections des musées nationaux." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, no. 3 (1974), fig. 2-4 pp. 218–19.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1975
"Acquisitions des musées." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1274 (March 1975), p. 14, no. 47, ill. (central fragment), as Barque.
Anonymous 1979
"La peinture à l'honneur à l'hôtel des Monnaies." Cahier d'information de l'administartion centrale de l'economie et du budget (Paris), no. 23 (April 1979), p. 34, ill.
Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 44.
Compin et al. 1986
Compin, Isabelle et Anne Roquebert. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre et du musée d'Orsay. 3, École Française, A-K. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 116, ill., as La barque (central fragment).
Hoog 1986
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 34, no. 11, ill. and detail of the bathers on the right, as La Barque et les baigneurs.
Hoog 1987
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 34–35, no. 11, ill., as Boat and Bathers.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, pp. 198–99, ill.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 99.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 84.
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. 644, ill. vol. 2, as La Barque et les baigneurs.
Georgel 2000
Georgel, Pierre. "La collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume: histoire et propos." In De Renoir à Picasso: Chefs-d'œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie. Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 83 (cat. no. 28), as La barque et les baigneurs.
Litoral 2001
Litoral: revista de la poesía, el arte y el pensamiento (Malaga), no. 231-232 ("La poesía del mar") (2001), ill. pp. 74-75, as La barca y las bañistas.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 308, no. 239, ill., as Barque, baigneurs et baigneuses, c. 1890.
Von der Weid 2006
Von der Weid, Jean-Joël. Musée de l'Orangerie: guide de visite. Paris: Artlys, 2006, ill. p. 44-45, as La Barque et les baigneurs.
Geskó 2012a
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, cat. 142, ill. (detail), as The Barque and the Bathers.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 206, pl. 93.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 238, ill., as Le bain or La barque et les baigneuses, photograph of painting hanging in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 9.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 43.
Nagaï 2021b
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cezanne chez Gauguin." Aesthetics, nos. 23-24 (2021), p. 43, fig. 29.
Record last updated September 20, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Barque et les baigneurs, c.1890 (FWN 676)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=625 (accessed on April 19, 2024).