Les Baigneurs This masterpiece is part of the group of studies made for the paintings dedicated to the theme of Bathers, now in the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The theme inspired by Tiziano and Poussin found a new vitality in Cézanne, in which the bodies are seen with a monumental, square structure, already close to the advent of Cubism. Realised with patches of colour, in their immediacy, they give us a good understanding of how for Cézanne each painting was a moment of study and in-depth examination of the subject, be it a person or a still life