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)
FWN 3017-02a
Apothéose de Delacroix
1878–80 (completed later)
Alternate titles: Apotheose Delacroix'; Apotheose des Delacroix; Hommage à Delacroix; Le triomphe d'Eugène Delacroix; The Apotheosis of Delacroix
Rewald (W68); Venturi revised: c.1894; Venturi (891): 1878–85; Rivière: 1895; also c.1900; Ratcliffe: c.1875; Reff: c.1875
Graphite, ink, and watercolor on wove paper, with a paper strip added at the bottom; page from the BSB sketchbook
7 7/8 x 9 3/16 in. (20 x 23.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 67, as Apotheose des Delacroix, c. 1880, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 10, as Hommage à Delacroix.
Galerie Baugin, Paris, Aquarelles de Cezanne, May 15–June 10, 1950, no. 3, as Apothéose de Delacroix, 1878-85.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 48, pl. 29, c. 1880.
Reid & Lefevre, London, XIX and XX Century French Paintings and Drawings, 1963, no. 24, ill.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 1, pl. I, as Apothéose de Delacroix, c. 1875, lent by Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, Zürich.
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, May 4–July 14, 1963, no. 16, pl. 2, as Apotheose Delacroix', 1878-85, lent by Dr. Fritz und Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 35, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: pp. 156-157, as The Apotheosis of Delacroix, lent by Private collection. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
British Museum, London, Recent Acquisitions, January–April 1991.
British Museum, London, French Drawings in the British Museum, 1996.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, French Drawings from the British Museum: Clouet to Seurat, November 8, 2005–January 29, 2006, no. 88. Traveled to: British Museum, London, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 20, ill., as The Apotheosis of Delacroix, 1878–80.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 22, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 35, British Museum.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 220, listed, ill. opp. p. 80 and p. 223, as Le triomphe d'Eugène Delacroix, dated c. 1900.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, pp. 51 and 57.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 891, ill. vol. II, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 11, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 35.
Reff, Theodore. "Letter to the Editor." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 3 (September 1964), pp. 425-26.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 57.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 137, fig. 2.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 70.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 68, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 222.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 200, fig. 35.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 5, fig. 5.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 338, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 148, pl. 47.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 43, fig. 14.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 190, pl. 81.
Bätschmann, Oskar. "Cézanne's Dream of Delacroix's Apotheosis." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 180, fig. 1.
Notes
As in the painting of the same siubject (FWN687), the figures from right to left can be identified as follows: Camille Pissarro at his easel, Claude Monet under an umbrella, Cezanne with a walking stick and two other men with their arms upraised, probably Auguste Renoir and, at far left, Victor Chocquet. Delacroix is carried heavenward by angels.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
Sketchbook 18 x 24, 1861–80 (3017)
The sheets have been widely dispersed. Because there is no pagination, the FWN numbers have been assigned an arbitrary sequence and the pages listed individually.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated May 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Apothéose de Delacroix, 1878–80 (completed later) (FWN 3017-02a), with a paper strip added at the bottom; page from the BSB sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1045 (accessed on May 19, 2025).
