Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Studies
After paintings and works on paper:
- Veronese »

Provenance

Charles Guérin, Paris;

President Guérin ( Président de la Cour d'Appel), Toulouse

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (January 1949)

Raymond Selles, Neuilly-sur-Seine

Jean Mazel, Paris

Private collection

Exhibition History

1921 Basel

Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 46, as Bacchanale.

1924a Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.

1926b Paris

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").

1978 Tübingen

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.

1982 Tübingen and traveling

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.

1988–89a London and traveling

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.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling

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.

2005 Tübingen

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.

2011–12 Tübingen

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.

2021a New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 51, Adriani Foundation.

Published References

Remon 1926

Remon, G. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Radical (Paris) (June 12, 1926), p. 2.

Dormoy 1926a

Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 449.

Adriani 1980

Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne: 'Der Liebeskampf'. Munich: Piper, 1980, p. 57, pl. 11.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 23, ill. and color pl. 2.

Lewis 1989

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pl. XI.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 150, ill.

Smith 1996

Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 24, fig. 14, as The Feast.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 76, fig. 40.

Prat 2011

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 2020

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.

Related work

Record last updated March 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

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 8, 2024).