Three Bathers (Trois baigneuses)
1876–1877
Oil on canvas
25.4 × 33.7 cm (10 × 13.3 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 05, South Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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In the mid-late 1870s, Cézanne painted a series of small-format pictures of bathers in which he explored the different relationships between figures and the landscape. Here three bathers gather on a riverbank framed by two trees. Their bodies are intentionally awkward, with the pose of the hunched-over bather at left mirrored by the thick tree trunk next to her. Cézanne was more interested in the equilibrium of his carefully constructed composition than the conventional beauty of bathing females.
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