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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)

Keywords

Provenance
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (October 6, 1919)
Baron Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe and Paris (September 7, 1921; sequestered by the French government, Dec. 16, 1944)
Musée du Louvre, Paris (pursuant to the Peace Treaty with Japan, 1959);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
1920a New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.
1923a Prague
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.
1947 Strasbourg and traveling
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.
1953 Aix-en-Provence and traveling
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.
1958 Paris
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.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1974b Paris
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.
1993b Paris
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.
2000 Aix-en-Provence
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.
2002 Hyogo
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.
2004–05 Paris and traveling
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.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 55, ill.
2016 Kobe
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 1935
Rewald, John. "Cézanne au Louvre." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 8 (October 1935), ill. p. 287, with photograph of model.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. CIX p. 143.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 865, ill. vol. II, as Le Concert champêtre.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XVII, listed pp. 180-181.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Maison 1961
Maison, Karl Eric. Themes and Variations. London, 1961, pl. 181.
Haskell 1973
Haskell, F. "Il Concerto Campestra' di Giorgione." Arte Illustrata (December 1973), pp. 374, 376, note 24.
Adriani 1982
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne: Aquarelle. Cologne: DuMont, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, note 98, as Nach Giorgiones Ländlichem Konzert.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 65, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 305, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 206, fig. 108.
Prat 2011
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 2012a
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 2015
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).
National Museum of Western Art 2018b
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 2020
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.

D'après Le Titien: Le concert champêtre, c.1878 (FWN 3008-x2a). Giorgione or Titian, Le Concert champêtre. Musée du Louvre
Giorgione or Titian, Le Concert champêtre. Musée du Louvre
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 March 29, 2024).