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 948
Baigneurs
c.1890
Alternate titles: Les Baigneurs; Les Baigneuses; Six baigneurs; The Bathers
Rewald (747): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (541): 1883–87
Oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (39 x 53 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Art français du XIXe siècle au profit de l'Association Générale des mutilés de la guerre, June 25–July 13, 1917, no. 4, as Les baigneurs, lent by Sevadjian.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 37, as Baigneurs, lent by S[evadjian].
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, L'art français au XIXe siècle, 1919.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 12, ill., as The Bathers, lent by Churchill.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 550, as Les Baigneuses, lent by Lord Spencer, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 289.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 81, as Les Baigneurs, lent by Churchill.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Le grand siècle, June 15–July 11, 1936, no. 13, ill.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 88, as Baigneurs, lent by Churchill.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 13, ill., as Les Baigneurs, 1885, lent by R. de Rothschild.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les collections particulières de Cézanne à Matisse, March–April 1952, no. 29, pl. 3, as Les Baigneurs, c. 1888-1892.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 26, ill. lent by Mlle Cécile de Rothschild.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 16, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 99, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 68.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 18.
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 96, ill. p. 78, as Baigneurs, J.-B. Stang collection.
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [19], ill., as The Bathers, c. 1890.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 51.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 541, ill. vol. II, as Les baigneurs.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 100, listed.
Jaloux, Edmond. "Cézanne." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire politique et littéraire illustré (Paris) (February 22, 1939), ill. p. 12, as Les Baigneurs, illustration erroneously as catalogue n° 18.
Auzas, Pierre. Peintures de Cézanne. Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1946, pl. X (in color), as Baigneurs, dated 1883–87.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 39, fig. 46.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Late Bather Paintings." Arts Magazine 52, no. 2 (October 1977), p. 118.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 134, 224, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 200, fig. 1.
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. 747, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 158 and 162 (detail), p. 291, no. 116, ill., as Six baigneurs, c. 1883.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, c.1890 (FWN 948)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=725 (accessed on March 28, 2025).
