The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3018-08a
L'Ermite
c.1877
Alternate titles: Der Eremit, Heiliger Antonius (L'Ermite, Saint Antoine); Der Mönch; Eremit; Hermite; L'Ermite, Saint-Antoine; La tentation de saint Antoine
Rewald (W66); Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (1192): 1870–77; Reff: c.1877
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, p. XV probably from the CP IV sketchbook
8 11/16 x 10 3/4 in. (22 x 27.3 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Private collection
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 44, as Eremit, lent by Paul Cassirer pr.
Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen; Bronzen von Edgar Degas, May 19–June 16, 1927, no. 2, as Der Mönch, lent by G.F. Reber.
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 19, as Hermite, dated 1870–77, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 7, ill., as Der Eremit, Heiliger Antonius (L'Ermite, Saint Antoine), 1874-1877, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Published References
Waldemar-George. Le dessin français de David à Cézanne et l'esprit de la tradition baroque. Paris: Editions chroniques du jour, 1929, pl. LXXXVI.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, pl. 56.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1192, ill. vol. II, as L'Ermite.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne, Flaubert, St. Anthony, and the Queen of Sheba." The Art Bulletin 44, no. 2 (June 1962), pp. 122–23, fig. 9.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 66, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 33 p. 58.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 223, pl. 104, dated c. 1874.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 406, ill., as La tentation de saint Antoine.
Notes
T. Reff (1962) suggests that this work was inspired by a description in Gustave Flaubert's Tentation de Saint-Antoine (1874, Chapter 1) and represents the saint's dwelling.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
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Record last updated May 16, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Ermite, c.1877 (FWN 3018-08a), p. XV probably from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1043 (accessed on March 24, 2025).
