Bather and the Rocks

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Although it looks like a complete work, Bather and Rocks is a section of a much larger mural. At the time he painted it, Paul C¨¦zanne was living in an 18th-century mansion in sout hern France. The artist covered a wall of its grand salon with a landscape that included this figure in the foreground. In 1907, the year after C¨¦zanne¡¯s death, this portion of the painting was detached from the wall, transferred to canvas, and sold. Even as a fragment, Bather and Rocks is a work of remarkable power and vigor. Painted with an almost violent energy, the heavily muscled nude faces a massive rock, which he seems to be holding up against the force of the rushing water. Title Bather and Rocks Creator Paul Cezanne 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 Created circa 1860-1866 Location Created Aix-en-Provence, France Provenance The artist, Jan de Bouffan (near Aix-en-Provence), ca. 1864/68-1899; Louis Granel, Jas de Bouffan, 1899-1907; Josse Hessel, Paris, 1907; Georges Bernheim, Paris; Alphonse Kahn, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, by 1952; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum of Norfolk, 1971. Physical Dimensions 66 x 41 1/2 in. (167.6 x 105.4 cm) Credit Line Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Type Painting Medium Oil on cavnas, transferred from plaster Show more