The Bathers, Large Plate (Les Baigneurs)
1896-1897
18 7/8 x 25 1/16 in. (47.9 x 63.7 cm)
Paul Cézanne
France
(Aix-en-Provence, France, 1839 – 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph on laid paper
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Lockhart, Jr.
Accession Number:
1983.116
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
Lockhart Collection
For Ambroise Vollard's third "Album des Peintres-Gravures," unpublished.
Cézanne based this color lithograph on his painting that dates from 20 years earlier. The print was commissioned by the successful French art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard, who represented many well-known French artists of the late 1800s, including Cézanne, Renoir, and Degas.
Vollard’s albums comprised works by “painter-printmakers” rather than by artists who were printmakers by profession. Many Impressionist artists were intrigued by the challenges and potential of lithography, etching, and engraving, and used the printmaking medium to extend their reach beyond painting.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]