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 400
Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif
1866 autumn
Alternate titles: Deux hommes; Les Peintres; Les Promeneurs; Marion and Valabrègue on their Way to the 'Motif'; Maron and Valabrègue Leaving for the Motif; Sketch of Two Men; Spazierganger
Rewald (99): 1866 autumn; Venturi revised: c.1866; Venturi (96): 1865–68; Rivière: 1868; Ratcliffe: October 1866
Oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 12 3/16 in. (39 x 31 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 46, as Les Peintres, lent by M. Aubry.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 10, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 25, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 89.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 101, as Spazierganger, c. 1869.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 400, as Deux hommes.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 28–29, fig. 13, pl. XXXVII.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 96, ill. vol. II, as Les Promeneurs.
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, p. 99.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 28, pl. XXXVII fig. 13, as Sketch of Two Men.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 32, fig. 1.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), pp. 265-266, fig. 2.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 218, fig. 241a.
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, pp. 112–13.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 92, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 99, ill. vol. 2, as Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 156, fig. 4.7, as Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne and His Friends at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 19, ill. in color.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 85, ill. in color.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 12, fig. 13, as Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 109, fig. 66.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 87.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 87.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 100.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 62 p. 78.
Causey, Faya. "Finds." In Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58, fig. 37, as Maron and Valabrègue Leaving for the Motif, dated 1866.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 179, fig. 5, as Marion and Valabrègue on their Way to the 'Motif'.
Notes
In a letter to Zola written in October 1866 (see supplementary image) Cézanne described a project for a large painting depicting Marion and Valabrègue setting out for the motif. Cézanne wrote again to Zola on November 2 admitting that the picture had not worked out as he had hoped. This oil sketch is all that remains. See also FWN 2216.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif, 1866 autumn (FWN 400)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=113 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
