The Bathers (Large Plate)
Paul Cezanne
1896-1897
Medium
colored lithograph
Dimensions
image: 41.5 x 51 cm (16 5/16 x 20 1/16 in.) sheet: 48.2 x 62.9 cm (19 x 24 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Karl Leubsdorf
Accession Number
1979.58.1
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 ...