Standing Bather, Seen from the Back
Paul Cezanne
1879-82
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31.7 × 21.6 cm (12 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.); Framed: 53.4 × 42.3 × 8.9 cm (21 × 16 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
191564
About the Artist
Paul Cezanne · 1839–1906
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), born in Aix-en-Provence to a prosperous banker father, Louis-Auguste, and mother Anne-Elisabeth-Honorine Aubert, grew up in a bourgeois family that later acquired the Jas de Bouffan estate, where he painted his earliest murals. As a youth, he formed the inseparable trio "Les Trois Inséparables" with schoolmates Émile Zola and Baptistin Baille. Despite his father's wishes ...