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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 160, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1865–70 ; in another hand: Mirbeau

Keywords

Provenance
Georges Charpentier, Paris;
Charpentier Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 11, 1907, no. 34, ill.
Aubry
Galerie E. Druet, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, London, Nov. 30, 1992, no. 10, ill.
Carlos Slim Foundation, Mexico City;
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, Mexico
Exhibition History
1907a Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 46, as Les Peintres, lent by M. Aubry.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 10, lent by private collection, Paris.
1988–89a London and traveling
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 1907b
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." Volné směry (Prague) 11 (1907), ill. p. 99.
Meier-Graefe 1918a
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 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 400, as Deux hommes.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 28–29, fig. 13, pl. XXXVII.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 118, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 96, ill. vol. II, as Les Promeneurs.
Cézanne 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, p. 99.
Rewald 1937a
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.
Rewald 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 16.
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 5.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 28, pl. XXXVII fig. 13, as Sketch of Two Men.
Chappuis 1962
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 1967b
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 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 218, fig. 241a.
Cézanne 1976
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, pp. 112–13.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 55, ill.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 92, ill.
Rewald 1996
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 90, fig. 50.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2004
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 2004
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 2006a
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 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 109, fig. 66.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 87.
Warman 2017
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 265, fig. 87.
Warman 2017a
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 100.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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 2020
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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.

Marion et Valabrègue partant pour le motif, 1866 autumn (FWN 400)

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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 March 29, 2024).