The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 1813-TA
L'Orgie ou le banquet
c.1867
Alternate titles: Bacchanale; Die Orgie; Die Orgie (L'Orgie); L'orgie; Le banquet; Le banquet d'après Véronèse; Le Banquet ou L'Orgie; Studie für: Die Orgie; The Feast
Rewald (W23)
Graphite, crayon, pastel, gouache (and watercolor?) on paper
12 13/16 x 9 3/8 in. (32.5 x 23.8 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 58[b], as Le banquet (According to Dormoy 1926 and Remon 1926 this watercolor was exhibited. It could have been part of cat. no. 58, Aquarelles, or also cat. no. 21 though this entry is not qualified as a watercolor in the "leaflet").
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 7a, ill. p. 99, as Studie für: Die Orgie, 1864-1868, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 1, ill., as Die Orgie (L'Orgie), 1866-68, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 65, ill., as L'Orgie ou le banquet, shown in London and Washington, D.C. only ? Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 15, ill. lent by Private collection, Stuttgart. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 8, ill., as L'orgie. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, January 22–May 22, 2005, no. 12, ill. p. 67, as Die Orgie, 1866-1868.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co., September 17, 2011–January 29, 2012, listed p. 282, ill. p. 53, as Die Orgie, 1866-68, lent by Private collection.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 51, Adriani Foundation.
Published References
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 449.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 23, ill. and color pl. 2.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pl. XI.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 24, fig. 14, as The Feast.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 602, no. 1438, ill. in color, as L'orgie, 1866-1868.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 411, ill., as Le banquet d'après Véronèse.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Orgie ou le banquet, c.1867 (FWN 1813-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1000 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
