1154164 The Large Bathers, 1900-06 (oil on canvas) by Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); 210.5x250.8 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA; (add.info.: This is the largest, the last, and in many ways, the most ambitious work from C矇zanne??? lifelong exploration of the time-honored theme of nudes in a landscape. It is also, perhaps, in its unfinished state, the purest and most serene witness to the man whom Paul Gauguin described as spending ???ntire days on mountaintops reading Virgil,??dreaming of wooded glades populated with beautiful figures who, if not exactly participants in a narrative as such, are full of animation and interaction. Perhaps it is its grand nobility?ts authority as something beyond time, ???ike art in the museums,??as C矇zanne said?hat made it so attractive to many artists.); 穢 Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937; French, out of copyright.