Bathers are one of the most spectacular subjects in Cezanne's work after 1880, partly because of their gross figures rendered in rich colors. However, it is not until recently did Cezanne's women bathers attract further investigation in the light of psychoanalysis, especially the subjects related with eroticism or violence. The series of Bethsabee includes three paintings, two watercolors and three drawings. More shocking than her provocative gesture, the female nude of Bethsabee (V253; NR591) turns out to be a poetic and caricatural metamorphosis of Christ's body from pictures of Delacroix or Daumier. In the bath scenes after 1890, Cezanne's figures appear vague, while the landscape becomes more and more expressive, exploiting the notion of Baulairean correspondences. The formation of Bethsabee indicates the bathers of the 1870s as the major experiment in his pursuit of moyens d'expression : based on the (caricatural) displacement of figures in early works, Cezanne transposed the object of sensations from the body toward the nature.