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Catalogue entry

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)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Count Isaac de Camondo, Paris (bought Dec. 5, 1895; bequeathed to the Louvre in 1908);
Musée du Louvre, Paris (1911, Bequest of Isaac de Camondo; exhibited from 1914 on);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1933c Paris
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.
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 70, as Les Rideaux, 1885-1890, lent by Musée du Louvre.
1956 The Hague
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 63, ill. 1885-90, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 100, ill., pl. 55.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 78, ill. 1885/90, lent by Musée du Louvre, Paris.
1959–60 Rome and traveling
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.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1974b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 58, ill., as Les Rideaux, 1885-1890.
1984 Madrid
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.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2002 Rome
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.
2011–12 Milan
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.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 52, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Published References
Vitry et al. 1922
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 1927
Mauny, Jacques. "Cézanne: The Old Master." Drawing and Design 2, no. 1 (January 1927), p. 26, ill.
Mauclair 1933
Mauclair, Camille. "Exposition." Le Figaro (Paris), March 31, 1933, p. 5, as Les Rideaux.
Provence 1934
Provence, Marcel. L'Année cézannienne, 1933. Aix-en-Provence: Editions du Feu, 1934.
Album Quatre Chemins 1936b
Album Quatre Chemins. Cézanne – Six aquarelles reproduites en fac-similé (Deuxième Album). Paris: Quatre Chemins, n.d. [1936], pl. 1.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1123, ill. vol. II, as Les Rideaux.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 37, ill.
Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 38.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 193, ill.
Cachin and Buhart 1995b
Cachin, Françoise and Laure Buhart. "Cézanne: 'un sujet intimidant …'" Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 5.
Cahn 1995b
Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 26, ill.
Armstrong 2004
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 32, fig. 14, as Curtains, 1885.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 31, ill.
Prat 2011
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 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 279, fig. 196.
Armstrong 2018
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 March 28, 2024).