Art Institute of Chicago
Standing Bather, Seen from the Back
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)LinkedCulture matchlcp-84594e346d8b
- Date
- 1879-82
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 191564
In the course of making an artwork, Paul Cezanne often significantly altered his original design. Someone, perhaps the artist, cut this canvas from a larger painting, retaining remnants of the other composition. In the lower-left corner, a series of blue lines can be read as the legs of a seated figure from knees to ankles; the body may have continued on an adjacent part of the canvas. These lines sit on top of the background foliage, indicating that Cezanne added this second figure after completing the first, presumably before changing his mind about the direction of the painting or moving on to another work.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
- Provenance
- Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris, by 1931 [Dormoy 1931]. Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris [Rewald 1996]; by descent to his widow, Domenica Guillaume (née Juliette Léonie Lacaze, later Mme Jean Walter, 1898–1977), Paris, until 1936 [this and the following according to Art Institute of Chicago incoming receipt R5951]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, Chicago, Jan. 1936; by descent to their son, Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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