Dimensions:sheet: 4 15/16 x 8 1/8 in. (12.6 x 20.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Object Number:2003.20.3
Baigneurs (recto); Paysage (verso)
Badende Manner I
Baigneuses
Inscription: On verso, in graphite, in a later hand: [framer notations?]; on verso: graphite sketch of a horizontal landscape with scattered houses.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French), Cagnes; his son Jean Renoir (French), Paris and Marlotte(sold in Nov. 1954 through Charles Durand-Ruel to Wildenstein); Wildenstein Galleries, New York(1954-55; sold May 6, 1955 to Annenberg); Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg (American), New York
Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London. "Homage to Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)," July 1939.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Philadelphia Private Collectors," June 19, 1963–September 15, 1963.
Tate Gallery. "The Annenberg Collection," September 2, 1969–October 8, 1969, 6.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 21–September 17, 1989.
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 6–August 5, 1990.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," August 16–November 11, 1990.
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Ambroise Vollard La Vie et l'œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Galerie Vollard, Deluxe edition. Paris, 1919, p. 114.
Georges Rivière Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Henry Floury, Paris, 1923, p. 217, listed as "Baigneuses".
"Der Cicerone" Berliner Ausstellungen. 19, 1927, p. 288, ill.
Cézanne: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen Bronzen von Edgar Degas. Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, 1927, cat. no. 3, p. 5, ill.
"Sonderheft: Almanach auf das Jahr." Omnibus. Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin and Düsseldorf, 1931, p. 169, ill.
Lionello Venturi Cézanne: Son Art, Son Œuvre. Éditions Paul Rosenberg, 2 vols., Paris, 1936, cat. no. 902 (vol. 1); pl. 281 (vol. 2), ill.
Ambroise Vollard En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Editions Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1938, p. 202 as "Baigneuses".
Wildenstein & Co., Inc. Homage to Paul Cézanne (1939–1906). London, 1939, cat. no. 54.
Alfred Neumeyer Cézanne's Drawings. Thomas Yoseloff, New York and London, 1958, cat. no. 20, p. 41, ill.
Alfred Neumeyer Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart, 1959, fig. no. 4, ill.
Melvin Waldfogel, Harvard University The Bathers of Paul Cézanne. PhD diss., 1961 fig. no. 64, pp. 112, 159, ill.
M. Roy Fisher, Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Tate Gallery The Annenberg Collection. Tate Gallery, London, 1969, cat. no. 6, ill.
Barbara Ehrlich White "The Bathers of 1887 and Renoir's Anti-Impressionism." The Art Bulletin. 55, no. 1, March 1973, p. 119n47.
John Rewald Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983, cat. no. 132, ill.
Mary Louise Krumrine, Gottfried Boehm, Christian Geelhaar, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel and New York, 1989, pp. 250-251, 265, 266n40.
Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 76-77, 175, ill.
Jérôme Coignard "Le Salon de peinture de Mr. et Mrs. Annenberg." Beaux-Arts. no. 92, Paris, July–August 1991, p. 65.
Guila Ballas Cézanne: Baigneuses et baigneurs: Thème et composition. Tel-Aviv and Paris, 2002, pp. 173 (ill.), 244 (ill.), 245, 294, no. 142., cat. no. 142, fig. no. 11-5a, 7a, pp. 169-170, ill.
Joseph J. Rishel, Susan Alyson Stein, Asher Miller, Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4th rev. ed. [1st ed., 1989]. New York, 2009, cat. no. 28, pp. 148–51, ill.
Richard Shone "Acquisitions (2000–10) of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine. 152, no. 1293, December 2010, fig. no. XIV, p. 843, ill.
Anita Haldemann et al. The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 2017, cat. no. 211, p. 266, ill.
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