Catalogue entry

FWN 1854

Scène illustrant un récit romantique

1875–78

Alternate titles: Scène avec deux personnages, d'après un maître; Scène pour le Faust; Scène pour le Faust (d'après Delacroix)

Rewald (W63); Venturi revised: 1872–77; Venturi (868): c.1885

Graphite and watercolor on paper

19 5/16 x 12 3/16 in. (49 x 31 cm)

Private collection

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

César M. De Hauke, Paris

Richard Davis, Minneapolis

Alex L. Hillman Family Foundation, New York

Christie's, New York, Hillman Family Collection, Nov. 5, 2008, no. 4, ill.

Private collection

Exhibition History

1935b Paris

Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.

1950d Paris

Galerie Baugin, Paris, Aquarelles de Cezanne, May 15–June 10, 1950, no. 13, as Scène pour le Faust (d'après Delacroix), c. 1885.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 868, ill. vol. II, as Scène pour le Faust.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.

Reff 1960c

Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 149, Appendix, V. 868.

Reff 1964b

Reff, Theodore. "Letter to the Editor." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 3 (September 1964), p. 425.

Lichtenstein 1964a

Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 56, note 6.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 63, ill.

Prat 2011

Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 590, no. 1412, ill. in b/w p. 591, as Scène avec deux personnages, d'après un maître, c. 1885 ?

Notes

Venturi proposed that the work is a scene from Faust after Delacroix. Chappuis noted, however, that the watercolor may correspond to a scene in Chapter I (Le Talisman) from Balzac's novel Le Peau de Chagrin. Rewald, on the other hand, suggested that it "rather looks like a copy of some romantic illustration that has yet to be identified." (Rewald 1983, p. 100).

Record last updated February 12, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Scène illustrant un récit romantique, 1875–78 (FWN 1854)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1040 (accessed on May 7, 2024).