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Catalogue entry

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)
The British Museum, London (1987,0620.31)

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Maurice Renou, Paris
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1955)
Richard H. Zinser, New York (1955)
Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich;
Peter Nathan, Zurich
Reid & Lefèvre, London
Aimée Goldberg, London;
Estate of Aimée Goldberg, London;
The British Museum, London (1987)
Exhibition History
1935b Paris
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 67, as Apotheose des Delacroix, c. 1880, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
1937 New York
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 10, as Hommage à Delacroix.
1950d Paris
Galerie Baugin, Paris, Aquarelles de Cezanne, May 15–June 10, 1950, no. 3, as Apothéose de Delacroix, 1878-85.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 48, pl. 29, c. 1880.
1963b London
Reid & Lefevre, London, XIX and XX Century French Paintings and Drawings, 1963, no. 24, ill.
1963f New York
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.
1963 Hamburg
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.
1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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.
1991 London
British Museum, London, Recent Acquisitions, January–April 1991.
1996b London
British Museum, London, French Drawings in the British Museum, 1996.
2005–06 New York
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.
2006–07 London
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 20, ill., as The Apotheosis of Delacroix, 1878–80.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 22, ill.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 35, British Museum.
Published References
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 49, ill.
Rivière 1923
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 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, pp. 51 and 57.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 132, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 891, ill. vol. II, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 11, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 24, 135.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 35.
Reff 1964b
Reff, Theodore. "Letter to the Editor." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 3 (September 1964), pp. 425-26.
Lichtenstein 1964a
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 57.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 137, fig. 2.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 70.
Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 34.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 68, ill.
Coutagne et al. 1984a
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 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 200, fig. 35.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 5, fig. 5.
Cézanne 2013
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 148, pl. 47.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 43, fig. 14.
Warman 2015
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 2017
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.

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Record 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 5, 2024).