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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Léon Marseille, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (July 26, 1919)
Bernheim-Jeune, Lausanne (December 31, 1921)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Suse Paret-Cassirer, Berlin and Menton (1926)
Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (March 1935)
Grete Ring, London (1939);
Helmuth Lütjens, Amsterdam (1952)
Private collection
Exhibition History
1921 Berlin
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.1927e Berlin
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.1939e London
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 19, as Hermite, dated 1870–77, lent by Private collection.1982 Tübingen and traveling
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 1929c
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 1936
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, pl. 56.D'Ors 1936a
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 86.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1192, ill. vol. II, as L'Ermite.Reff 1962b
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 66, ill.Krumrine 1989b
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 223, pl. 104, dated c. 1874.Dauberville 2020
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.
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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&sketchbook=3018 (accessed on May 4, 2024).
