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The motif of "bathers," which features more than 200 occasions in Cézanne's work, represents naked people in natural surroundings. It emerged as a genre in its own right, of which Cézanne's paintings serve as an example. They show groups of people lying, crouching, standing, or moving about in the open air. Turned away from the onlooker, by no stretch of the imagination displaying their nakedness, their bodies are not idealized, but appear heavy and voluminous, we can even describe them as overstretched and heavily distorted. In the composition foreground and background are closely related in terms of colour, and there is no spatial depth. The landscape and nudes merge into a quite architectural construction.
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