The subject of bathers in a landscape, ideal bodies in an idyllic setting, preoccupied Paul Cézanne all his life. Starting in the 1870s, when he was still a member of the Impressionist group, and continuing until his death in 1906, the artist produced over two-hundred paintings and drawings on the theme. This talk led by Martha Clawson, curatorial research fellow, Art of Europe, explores Cézanne’s final masterpiece, The Large Bathers, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It will address the picture, painted from about 1900 to 1906, in the context of two longstanding traditions: landscape and the nude. Examining works by a range of artists from Poussin to Gauguin, we will discuss how Cézanne absorbed and transformed the traditions to which he was heir.