The Large Bathers

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This is the largest, the last, and in many ways, the most ambitious work from C¨¦zanne¡¯s lifelong exploration of the time-honored theme of nudes in a landscape. It is also, perhap s, in its unfinished state, the purest and most serene witness to the man whom Paul Gauguin described as spending ¡°entire days on mountaintops reading Virgil,¡± dreaming of wooded glades populated with beautiful figures who, if not exactly participants in a narrative as such, are full of animation and interaction. Perhaps it is its grand nobility¡ªits authority as something beyond time, ¡°like art in the museums,¡± as C¨¦zanne said¡ªthat made it so attractive to many artists. Title The Large Bathers Creator Lifespan 1839/1906 Creator Nationality French Creator Gender Male Creator Death Place Aix-en-Provence, France Creator Birth Place Aix-en-Provence, France Date 1900-1906 Location aix en provance, France Physical Dimensions w98.74 x h82.88 in (Overall) Type Paintings Rights ? 2014 Philadelphia Museum of Art. All rights reserved. Medium Oil on canvas Provenance Estate of Paul C¨¦zanne, 1906; purchased by Ambroise Vollard, Paris from C¨¦zanne's son, 1907; Auguste Pellerin (1852-1929), Paris, by 1923; by descent to his son Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris, 1929-1936 [1]; with Wildenstein & Co., New York, acting as agent for Pellerin, 1936 [2]; purchased by the City of Philadelphia with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, July 6, 1937 [3]. 1. Lent by M. and Mme. Pellerin to the 1936 exhibition C¨¦zanne , Mus¨¦e de l'Orangerie, Paris, no. 107. 2. Provenance per John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul C¨¦zanne A Catalogue Raisonn¨¦, New York, 1996, no. 857. See also Joseph Rishel, C¨¦zanne in Philadelphia Collections, Philadelphia, 1983, p. xvi. 3. Copy of dated receipt in registrar file., Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937 Artist/Maker Paul C¨¦zanne, French, 1839 - 1906 Show more