The Bather

Paul Cézanne · c. 1885

You're looking at The Bather — a painting by Paul Cézanne, around eighteen eighty-five. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. Cézanne was part of the Post-impressionism movement.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 50 x 38 1/8" (127 x 96.8 cm) · Credit Lillie P. Bliss Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 501: Still Life with Three Puppies

More by Paul Cézanne here: Pines and Rocks (Fontainebleau?), Boy in a Red Vest