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 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
Provenance
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 31, lent by private collection, Paris.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 7, ill., as Cinq baigneuses sous les arbres.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 14, pls. 84 and 231.
Published References
Arbiter, Petronius. "A Degenerate Work of Art: 'Bathers' by Cézanne." The Art World 1, no. 3 (December 1916), ill. p. 204.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Cézanne à l'atelier." L'Amour de l'art 2, 10 (October 1921), ill. p. 333, as Baigneuses.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 35, pl. p. 34, as ...un bain de femmes ...
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, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, listed twice on pp. 201 and 202 (?)
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Bolshevism in Art and Its Propagandists. New York: Veritas, 1924, p. 35, fig. 12.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 55, pl. [9] hors texte, as ...un bain de femmes ...
Glaser, Curt. "Das Cézanne-Buch Joachim Gasquets I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 25, nos. 8 and 9 (1927), ill. p. 287.
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, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 264, ill. vol. II, as Cinq baigneuses.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, pp. 36-38, fig. 28 and cover.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 17, ill.
Tsiakma, Katia. "Cézanne's and Poussin's Nudes." Art Journal 37, no. 2 (Winter 1977), fig. 21, detail.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), fig. 8.
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, 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.
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, 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, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 42, ill.
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 April 25, 2024).
