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Trace the great branches over the figures, then compare their curves with the repeated bent knees and backs below.
Cézanne returned throughout his career to the traditional subject of nudes in a landscape. In this late painting, made around 1899–1904, the clustered bodies sit within a broad framework of trees. Similar strokes run through flesh, foliage, sky, and water, binding the figures to their setting without making their poses entirely naturalistic.
Oil on canvas · 51.3 × 61.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Bathers
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- 1899-1904
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 51.3 × 61.7 cm (20 3/16 × 24 1/4 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 79.7 × 8.3 cm (27 1/4 × 31 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.