About this artwork
Through his studies of groups of bathers outdoors, Paul Cézanne reconceived a classical subject in a modern, pictorial idiom. Though clearly related, The Bathers is not a study for either of the monumental canvases of bather subjects that the artist left unfinished at his death; rather, it is an independent, exploratory work painted with a more spritely touch. For all its compositional complexity, it retains the lightness of a watercolor, with thin parallel strokes and dashes and areas of white-primed canvas showing through the paint.
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Status
- On View, Regenstein Hall
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Paul Cezanne
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Title
- The Bathers
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1899–1904
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 20 3/16 × 24 1/4 in. (51.3 × 61.7 cm)
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Credit Line
- Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1942.457
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/45240/manifest.json
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