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Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. This large painting is one of three pictures of female bathers that Cézanne worked on during the final decade of his life. They represent the culmination of his lifelong investigation of this subject and the climax of his entire career, and were hugely influential on early twentieth-century art. The subject of women relaxing in a woodland glade beneath an azure sky draws on a classical tradition of pastoral scenes of nude or semi-nude figures in an idealised landscape. More particularly, it recalls pictures of bathing nymphs and goddesses, especially the mythological scenes of Venetian Renaissance art. However, Cézanne’s painting has no clear narrative or literary source.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)

Date

about 1894-1905

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127.2 x W 196.1 cm

Accession number

NG6359

Acquisition method

Purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964

Work type

Painting

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