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)
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Tony Querrec; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
FWN 3008-x2a
D'après Le Titien: Le concert champêtre
c.1878
Alternate titles: After Titian, Pastoral Scene; Concert Champêtre (after Titian); Copie d'après "Le concert champêtre"; Etude d'après le concert champêtre de Giorgione; Koncert v přírodě; Le Concert champêtre; Le Concert champêtre d'après Giorgione-Titien; Le Concert Champêtre, after Giorgione; Le Concert champêtre, d'après Giorgione; Nach Giorgiones Ländlichem Konzert; Pastoral Concert; The Pastoral Concert
Rewald (W65); Venturi revised: 1872–77; Venturi (865): 1872–77
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper, probably page from the CP II sketchbook (trimmed)
4 15/16 x 7 3/16 in. (12.6 x 18.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.
S.V.U. Mánes, Municipal House, Prague, Francouzské umění XIX. a XX. století [French Art of the 19th–20th Centuries], May 26–June 1923, no. 151, as Koncert v přírodě, after Girogione; lent by Kojiro Matsukata.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, France, Les origines de l'art contemporain: la peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, November 1947–March 1948, no. 55, as Le Concert champêtre, Collection M.[atsukata]. Traveled to: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, November 1947–March 1948; Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, November 1947–March 1948.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 31, as Le Concert champêtre, 1872-77, lent by Private collection, Paris. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, De l'Impressionnisme à nos jours, opening June 27, 1958, no. 28, ill., pl. 5, as Etude d'après le concert champêtre de Giorgione, lent by the French State.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 66, ill., as Le Concert champêtre, d'après Giorgione, c. 1878, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris; shown in Tokyo only. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 55, ill., as Copie d'après "Le concert champêtre", c. 1878.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 139, ill., as Le Concert champêtre d'après Giorgione-Titien, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 21, ill. p. 47, as Le Concert champêtre, d'après Giorgione, c. 1878, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, The dream of a museum: 120 years of the concept of the Art museum in Japan, April 6–June 30, 2002, no. 3-1-16, p. 124 et 242, ill., as Le Concert Champêtre, after Giorgione, c. 1878, lent by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, New-York et l'art moderne. Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle (1905–1930), October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, no. 35, p. 322, ill. in color p. 86, as Copie d'après "Le concert champêtre", c. 1878, lent by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris; shown in Madrid only. Traveled to: Museo nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 10–May 16, 2005.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 55, ill.
Musée Municipal, Kobe, Japan, Pre-Event of the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of Kobe Port. The Old Matsukata Collection: Reenvisioning the Dream (Un avant-goût du 150e anniversaire de l’ouverture du port de Kobé. L'ancienne Collection Matsukata: Réimaginer le rêve), September 14–November 27, 2016, no. 40, ill., as Pastoral Concert, 1878 (as Copie d'après "Le concert champêtre" in French supplement), lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Published References
Rewald, John. "Cézanne au Louvre." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 8 (October 1935), ill. p. 287, with photograph of model.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 865, ill. vol. II, as Le Concert champêtre.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Haskell, F. "Il Concerto Campestra' di Giorgione." Arte Illustrata (December 1973), pp. 374, 376, note 24.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne: Aquarelle. Cologne: DuMont, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, note 98, as Nach Giorgiones Ländlichem Konzert.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 65, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 206, fig. 108.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 601, no. 1435, ill. in color, as Le Concert champêtre, d'après Giorgione, c. 1875.
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, cat. 55, ill., as After Titian, Pastoral Scene.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 40, fig. 11, as Concert Champêtre (after Titian).
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. 2, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2018, pp. 120-121, no. 1490, ill., as The Pastoral Concert.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 405, ill., as Le concert champêtre.
Notes
Cezanne's watercolor was inspired by the painting Le Concert Champêtre once attributed to Giorgione (now Titian). Charles Blanc published an engraving of the work in Ecole Vénitienne (1868), but Cezanne does not seem to have copied it here.
Giorgione or Titian, Le Concert champêtre. Musée du Louvre
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
Sketchbook Chappuis II (CP II), 1871–98 (3008)
The sketchbook originally contained 50 sheets; the pages are numbered on the "a" side at lower right in Roman numerals.
At the time of Chappuis' purchase from Paul Guillaume, the sketchbook was incomplete and a number of pages already dispersed and are still missing.
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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. "D'après Le Titien: Le concert champêtre, c.1878 (FWN 3008-x2a), probably page from the CP II sketchbook (trimmed)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1042 (accessed on September 19, 2024).
