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 1935
Fauteuil
1885–90
Alternate titles: An Armchair; Arm-Chair - Fauteuil; Armchair; Armstuhl; Le fauteuil
Rewald (W191); Venturi revised: 1880–81; Venturi (851): c.1885
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Watermark: AGM
12 11/16 x 13 5/16 in. (32.3 x 33.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Princes Gate Collection, 1981, no. 132, ill.
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 97, ill., as An Armchair, c. 1885-90.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 24, ill., as An Armchair.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 15, pp. 124-125, ill. in color p.127, digital infrared reflectogram p. 126, as Fauteuil, c. 1885-90.
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 18, ill., as Armstuhl, c. 1885-1890, lent by The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 851, ill. vol. II, as Fauteuil.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 106, as Arm-Chair - Fauteuil, 1885-90, Count A. Seilern, London.
Seilern, Antoine. Paintings and Drawings of Continental Schools Other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London. London: Shenval Press, 1961, p. 104, no. 238, pl. LXIII.
Genthon, István. Du romantisme au post-impressionnisme: Tableaux français en Hongrie: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Budapest. Budapest: Editions Corvina, 1964, pl. 33.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 191, ill.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 613, no. 1465, ill. in color, as Le fauteuil, c. 1885-1890.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 278, fig. 195.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 321 fig. 3.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 95, ill., as Armchair.
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Record last updated November 1, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fauteuil, 1885–90 (FWN 1935)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1171 (accessed on May 3, 2025).
