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Catalogue entry

FWN 771
Boîte à lait et pommes
1879–80
Alternate titles: Fruchtestilleben mit blaugrauem Hintergrund; Milk Can and Apples; Nature morte; Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche; Still Life with Milk Can and Apples; Stilleben, Äpfel
Rewald (426): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (338): 1879–82; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 24 in. (50 x 61 cm)

Keywords

Provenance
Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris
Sara Hallowell, Paris and Chicago (by Sept. 1891)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York (Feb. 1894);
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (Dec. 13, 1895)
Egisto Fabbri, Florence and Paris (Apr. 17, 1901)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (Feb. 1904)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1904)
Oskar Schmitz, Dresden (on temporary deposit at the Kunsthalle Basel)
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Paley, New York (1937);
William S. Paley Foundation;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990)
Exhibition History
1900 Berlin
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 1, as Stilleben, Äpfel, lent by Durand-Ruel, presumably for sale.
1932a Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 31, as Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche.
1932b Zürich
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz, Dresden-Zürich; Französische Impressionisten aus verschiedenem Besitz, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 43, as Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche.
1933 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 85, as Fruchtestilleben mit blaugrauem Hintergrund, c. 1885, [lent by Schmitz].
1936c New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, The Oscar Schmitz Collection, 1936, no. 9.
1936a Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, La Collection Oskar Schmitz, 1936, no. 9, ill.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 13, ill. lent by Paley.
1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 20, (dated 1906), as Nature morte, lent by anon.
1951d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Wildenstein Jubilee Loan Exhibition, 1901–1951: Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections, November 8–December 15, 1951, no. 49, ill.
1992 New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The William S. Paley Collection, February 2–May 7, 1992, no. 12, ill.
2001–02 Washington, D.C. and traveling
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 118, 119, pl. 49, as Still Life with Milk Can and Apples, lent by MoMA, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 71, ill., p. 170, as Boîte à lait et pommes, lent by MoMA, NY.
2022 Oxford
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Camille Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, February 18–June 12, 2022, no. 68, ill., as Milk Can and Apples, 1879.
Published References
Scheffler 1921
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Sammlung Oskar Schmitz in Dresden." Kunst und Künstler 19, no. 5 (1921), p. 188.
Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 1.
Dormoy 1926c
Dormoy, Marie. "La collection Schmitz à Dresde." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 10 (October 1926), p. 342, as Nature morte.
Bénédite 1930
Bénédite, Léonce. Französische Kunst. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, c. 1930, pl. 15.
Waldmann 1930a
Waldmann, Emil. "La Collection Schmitz: L'art français." Documents 6 (1930), p. 320.
Waldmann 1930b
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, pl. 6.
Hazama, Adachi, and Nakogawa, eds. 1935
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 3, Nature-mortes, pl. 7.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 338, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Art Digest 1937b
"San Francisco Sees Cézanne's 'Little Sensation' in Great Exhibition." Art Digest 9, no. 20 (September 1, 1937), p. 6, ill.
Goldwater 1938
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 143, ill.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 47.
Matisse 1945
Matisse, Henri. "De la couleur." Verve IV, 13 (December 1945), p. 9.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 62, listed p. 154.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 27, 34, 50, pl. 5.
Flam 1973
Flam, Jack. Matisse on Art. New York: Phaidon, 1973, pp. 101–02.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 130.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 11, 26, 337, pl. I.
Rubin and Armstrong 1992
Rubin, William, and Matthew Armstrong. The William S. Paley Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992. Exhibition catalogue, p. 149, fig. 8.
Rewald 1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 426, ill. vol. 2, as Boîte à lait et pommes.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 82.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 130, ill.
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 261, fig. 15.
Warman 2010
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne Crosses the Atlantic: Vollard and American Collections." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 80, fig. 1.
Warman 2011
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 170, ill., as Boîte à lait et pommes.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011a
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 345, ill.
Record last updated November 4, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Boîte à lait et pommes, 1879–80 (FWN 771)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=419 (accessed on March 29, 2024).