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 703
Le Poêle de l'atelier
c.1865
Alternate titles: Atelier; Intérieur; L'atelier; La Poêle dans l'atelier; Le Poêle; Le Poêle de l'atelier de Cézanne; Stove in the studio; The Stove in the Studio; Un Coin d'atelier; Un coin de l'atelier; Un Coin de l'atelier de Cézanne
Rewald (90): c.1865; Venturi revised: 1866–68; Cézanne fils: 1866; Venturi (64): 1865–68; Machotka et al: c.1865
Oil on canvas
16 1/2 x 11 13/16 in. (42 x 30 cm)
Signed lower right: P. CEZANNE.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 6, as Le Poêle, lent by Rosenberg.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Ecole de 1830, Ecole impressionniste, Ecole post-impressionniste, May 28–June 1934.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 3, as Un Coin de l'atelier de Cézanne.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 1, as Un coin de l'atelier, dated1866, lent by Mrs. Chester Beatty.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 7, lent by Mrs. Beatty.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 4, ill., as The Stove in the Studio, c. 1865.
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, fig. 1, pp. 94–95, ill., 258, as Le Poêle de l'atelier.
Musée Fabre, Montpelier, France, Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870): la jeunesse de l'impressionnisme, June 25–October 16, 2016, no. 87, ill., as La Poêle dans l'atelier, c. 1865, lent by The National Gallery, London. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, November 15, 2016–March 5, 2017; National Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 9–July 9, 2017.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) 11 (1907), ill. p. 100.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne I' and 'Cézanne II." Translated by Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 16, no. 82 and no. 83 (January and Fabruary 1910), ill. p. [277] (no. 83), as L'atelier.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed.
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 344, as Atelier.
Gaboriaud, L.-A. "Les expositions: Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne chez Bernheim jeune." L'Ere nouvelle (Paris), June 12, 1926, p. 3, as Intérieur, clearly described as no. 36 in Bernheim-Jeune expo, although Dauberville, 2020 says the work shown was FWN 601.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 447.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 64, ill. vol. II, as La Poêle dans l'atelier.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 19.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 5, as Le Poêle de l'atelier, 1865-68.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 2, as Le Poêle de l'atelier.
Adhémar, Jean. Emile Zola. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952. Exhibition catalogue, no. 345, as Le Poêle de l'atelier de Cézanne, photograph shown in the exhibition.
Émile Zola. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952. Exhibition catalogue, no. 345 (a photograph of this picture was shown).
Adhémar, Jean. "Le cabinet de travail de Zola." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), pp. 293 et 294 (no. 127bis).
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 56, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 215, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 30, ill.
"Calendar: London." The Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1072 (July 1992), p. 468, fig. 5, as The Stove in the Studio.
"Recent Acquisitions of Nineteenth-Century Paintings at the National Gallery, London." The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1080 (March 1993), p. 247, fig. VII, as Stove in the studio.
Baker, Christopher, and Tom Henry. The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue. London: National Gallery Publications, 1995, p. 107, ill., as The Stove in the Studio, probably 1965-70.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 5.
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. 90, ill. vol. 2, as Le Poêle de l'atelier.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Die Sprache der Dinge. Cézannes Stilleben." In Cézanne—Picasso—Braque. Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 2, ill. in color.
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. 258, fig. 1.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 4, pl. 1.
Leca, Benedict. "Le Monde est une pomme: nature mortes et portraits parisiens de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 114, fig. 51, as Le Poêle de l'atelier, dated circa 1865.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne in the Studio." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 201, fig. 4, as The Stove in the Studio.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 75, 147-8, fig. 115 p. 149, as The Stove in the Studio, c. 1865.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 351, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 57, ill., as Le Poêle.
Notes
The painting was executed in Cézanne's studio at 22, rue Beautreillis in Paris.
Record last updated October 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Poêle de l'atelier, c.1865 (FWN 703)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=103 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
