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)
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Tony Querrec; © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
FWN 1923
Les Rideaux
c.1885
Alternate titles: Curtains; Der Vorhang; Las cortinas; Le tende
Rewald (W193); Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1123): 1885–90
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper
19 5/16 x 12 1/16 in. (49 x 30.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Société des peintres-graveurs français, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, XXe exposition including Rétrospectives Paul Cézanne et P.-A. Renoir, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, lithographies, March 24–April 15, 1933, no. 16, as Les Rideaux.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 70, as Les Rideaux, 1885-1890, lent by Musée du Louvre.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 63, ill. 1885-90, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 78, ill. 1885/90, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, Il disegno francese da Fouquet a Toulouse-Lautrec, December 18, 1959–February 14, 1960, no. 185, as Le tende, 1885-1890, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Palazzo Reale, Milan, March 1–April 26, 1960.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 70, ill., as Les Rideaux, c. 1885, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 58, ill., as Les Rideaux, 1885-1890.
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 58, ill., as Las cortinas, c. 1885, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 102, ill. in color, p. 277, as Les Rideaux, c. 1885, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 158, ill., as Le tende, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 23, ill., as Les Rideaux, c. 1885-1890, lent by Musée d'Orsay.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 52, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Published References
Paul Vitry, Carle Dreyfus, Paul Leprieur... [et al.]. Catalogue de la Collection Isaac de Camondo. Paris: Musée national du Louvre, 1922, no. 211, as Les Rideaux.
Mauny, Jacques. "Cézanne: The Old Master." Drawing and Design 2, no. 1 (January 1927), p. 26, ill.
Mauclair, Camille. "Exposition." Le Figaro (Paris), March 31, 1933, p. 5, as Les Rideaux.
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 1.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1123, ill. vol. II, as Les Rideaux.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 37, ill.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 38.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 193, ill.
Cachin, Françoise and Laure Buhart. "Cézanne: 'un sujet intimidant …'" Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 5.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 32, fig. 14, as Curtains, 1885.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 611, no. 1461, ill. in color p. 610, as Les Rideaux, c. 1885-1890.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 279, fig. 196.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 108, 1885.
Record last updated June 21, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Rideaux, c.1885 (FWN 1923)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1173 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
