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Catalogue entry

FWN 917
Cinq baigneuses sous des arbres
c.1875
Alternate titles: Baigneuses; Cinq baigneuses; Cinq baigneuses sous les arbres; Etude de Baigneuses; Nus
Rewald (257): c.1875; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (264): 1873–77; Rivière: 1875(?); Cooper: c.1876 (after No. 256); Gowing: possibly shortly after No. 256 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 11/16 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3767, huile; des femmes nues se baignent dans une rivière à l'ombre d'arbres, 60 x 73 cm (450 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 384, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1880

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Feb. 24, 1900);
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection;
Pellerin Collection, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 13, 1997, no. 109, ill.
Exhibition History
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 31, lent by private collection, Paris.
1983 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 7, ill., as Cinq baigneuses sous les arbres.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 14, pls. 84 and 231.
Published References
Denis 1909–10
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne." Kunstbladet (1909–10), p. 279, ill.
Faure 1911
Faure, Élie. "Paul Cézanne." L'Art décoratif 13, no. 157 (October 5, 1911), p. 118, ill.
Arbiter 1916
Arbiter, Petronius. "A Degenerate Work of Art: 'Bathers' by Cézanne." The Art World 1, no. 3 (December 1916), ill. p. 204.
Gasquet 1921a
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne à l'atelier." L'Amour de l'art 2, 10 (October 1921), ill. p. 333, as Baigneuses.
Gasquet 1921b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 35, pl. p. 34, as ...un bain de femmes ...
Fontainas and Vauxcelles 1922
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 224, as Baigneuses.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, listed twice on pp. 201 and 202 (?)
Faure 1923a
Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 58, as Etude de Baigneuses.
Ruckstull 1924
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Bolshevism in Art and Its Propagandists. New York: Veritas, 1924, p. 35, fig. 12.
Arishima 1925
Arishima, Ikuma. Sezannu [Cézanne]. Tokyo: Ars, 1925, pl. 47.
Gasquet 1926
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 55, pl. [9] hors texte, as ...un bain de femmes ...
Glaser 1927
Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 287.
Zervos 1931
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture: Le retour au sujet est-il probable?" Cahiers d'Art, nos. 3 and 4 (1931), p. 200, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 264, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 20.
Schildt 1946
Schildt, Göran. Cézanne. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1946, fig. 53.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 18, as Baigneuses, 1873-77.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 52, listed p. 152.
Jourdain 1950
Jourdain, Francis. Cézanne. Paris: Braun, 1950, ill.
Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 139.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 36-38, fig. 28 and cover.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 17, ill.
Tsiakma 1977
Tsiakma, Katia. "Cézanne's and Poussin's Nudes." Art Journal 37, no. 2 (Winter 1977), fig. 21, detail.
Krumrine 1980
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), fig. 8.
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. 185, fig. 3.
Geelhaar 1989
Geelhaar, Christian. "The Painters Who Had the Right Eyes: On the reception of Cézanne's Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 294, fig. 231, as Cinq baigneuses.
Patin 1995
Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 49.
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. 257, ill. vol. 2, as Cinq baigneuses sous des arbres.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, pp. 40-43, figs. 5-1a, 5-2, p. 276, no. 2, ill., as Cinq baigneuses, c. 1875.
D'Souza 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 42, ill.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 248, ill., as Nus.
Notes

Possible sources for the figures are: an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, a naiad by Rubens and a painting by Delacroix (see Berthold, 1958).

Record last updated April 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cinq baigneuses sous des arbres, c.1875 (FWN 917)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=9 (accessed on March 29, 2024).