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 957
Six baigneuses; Les Ondines
c.1887
Alternate titles: Badende; Badende (Frauen); Badende Kvinder (Les Ondines); Baigneuses; Les Baigneuses; Les Grandes Baigneuses study; Les Ondines; Les Ondines (Six baigneuses); Six baigneuses; Six baigneuses: also known as Les Ondines
Rewald (588): c.1887; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (538): 1883–85
Oil on canvas
13 x 17 5/16 in. (33 x 44 cm)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5228, baigneur [baigneuses?] (17,000 Fr)
Vollard archives: photo no. 266 and [194], Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885; Fayet
Private collection, Geneva
Provenance
Exhibition History
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 2, as Les Ondines, lent by Galeries Druet.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 6, as Les Baigneuses, for sale.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede [French Art of the Nineteenth Century], May 15–June 30, 1914, no. 21, as Badende Kvinder (Les Ondines), lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 38, as Les Ondines, 1885, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 48, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 50, pl. 180 (reversed).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 13, ill., p. 40, as Six baigneuses: also known as Les Ondines.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 96, ill. lent by Private collection.
Published References
Burger, Fritz. Cézanne und Hodler. Munich: Delphin Verlag, 1913, pl. 50, as Badende (Frauen).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 183.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 222.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 109, as Badende.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXXXIII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 538, ill. vol. II, as Les Ondines.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 127, ill., as Les Grandes Baigneuses study, dated 1883–85.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 59, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 141, 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. 588, ill. vol. 2, as Six baigneuses; Les Ondines.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 10 p. 21, p. 276, no. 4, ill., as Les Ondines (Six baigneuses), 1883-85.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 207; vol. 2, p. 144, as Six baigneuses.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 235, ill., as Les Ondines, installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 102.
Notes
There is a Derain drawing after this work illustrated in Rewald,1996, p. 394.
Related work
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. "Six baigneuses; Les Ondines, c.1887 (FWN 957)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=932 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
