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 952
Baigneurs
c.1892
Alternate titles: Bathers; Cinq baigneurs; Les cinq baigneurs; Six baigneurs
Rewald (749): c.1892; Venturi revised: 1885–88; Venturi (587): 1892–94
Oil on canvas
8 11/16 x 13 in. (22 x 33 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Palais de Tokyo, musée d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1980-1983, November 28, 1983–September 1984, no. 19, ill., as Baigneurs, c. 1892-94.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, From Courbet to Cézanne: A New 19th Century Preview of the Musée d'Orsay, March 13–May 5, 1986, no. 3, ill., pp. 47-49, as Bathers. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 1–August 3, 1986.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 21–September 6, 2011, pl. 129, cat. 11 (Stein coll.), as Bathers, c. 1892, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012 (see Paris 2011-12a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21–June 3, 2012.
Grand Palais, Paris, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso ... L'aventure des Stein, October 5, 2011–January 16, 2012, no. 54, ill., as Cinq baigneurs, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France, Un été au bord de l'eau: loisirs et impressionnisme, March 27–September 29, 2013, no. 56, as Baigneurs, c. 1892-1894, with wrong illustration (FWN 947).
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 18, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 100, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 587, ill. vol. II, as Baigneurs.
Catalogue sommaire illustré des nouvelles acquisitions du Musée d’Orsay: 1980-1983. Lacambre, Geneviève et Thiébaut Philippe, publication directors, coordination. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, p. 16, no. 19, ill. (in reverse), as Baigneurs, c. 1892-94.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Musée d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume: douze œuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), pp. 139-141, fig. 11.
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 Les cinq baigneurs, c. 1875-77.
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. 14, ill., as Baigneurs.
Durey, Philippe. Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Paris: Albin Michel, 1988, pp. 112-113, ill., as Baigneurs.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 144, ill.
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. 749, ill. vol. 2, as Baigneurs.
Brachlianoff, Dominique et al. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon: guide. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998, p. 231, ill., as Baigneurs, c. 1890-1900.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, ill. pp. 167 and 241, 257 (details), fig. d (detail) p. 266, p. 292, no. 123, ill., as Six baigneurs, 1892-94.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 396, no. 11, pl. 129, as Bathers.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 70, fig. 91.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneurs, c.1892 (FWN 952)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=727 (accessed on January 21, 2025).
