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 597
La Toilette funéraire; L'Autopsie
1869
Alternate titles: Autopsie; Autopsy; Grablegung Christi; L'Autopsie; La Toilette funéraire; La toilette funéraire (l'autopsie); La Toilette funéraire (or L’Autopsie); Pieta; Saint Sébastien; The Autopsy; The Autopsy (Preparation for the Funeral)
Rewald (142): 1869; Venturi revised: c.1868; Venturi (105): 1867–69; Rivière: 1864; Cooper: 1865–66; Gowing: 1867 or 1868 (Burlington) and c.1868 (London)
Oil on canvas
19 5/16 x 31 1/2 in. (49 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3306, Christ au tombeau. Groupe de trois personnages; à côté du Christ à moitié étendu se tiennent un homme en manches de chemise et une femme au corsage rouge, 50 x 80 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 98, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1865
Private collection, U.K.
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection, U.K.
Exhibition History
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 7, as L'Autopsie, c. 1867-1869, lent by Private collection, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 14, lent by private collection, Paris.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 5, ill., as La toilette funéraire (l'autopsie).
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 35, 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.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 8, ill., as The Autopsy (Preparation for the Funeral), c. 1869, Private collection, London.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 39, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 15, ill. lent Courtesy Pyms Gallery, London.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 22, ill. Private collection; catalogued but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 272, ill., as Autopsy, Collection Pellerin.
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 338, ill., as Autopsy, "Collection Pellerin".
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 87.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 98, as Pieta, c. 1869.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed, p. 67, ill.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 389, as Autopsie.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 20, as Grablegung Christi.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 15–16, fig. 2, pl. II.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. IV.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 5, ill.
Peschcke-Koedt, Matthias. "Det syvende Bud." Samleren 11 (January 1934), p. 6, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 37.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 105, ill. vol. II, as La Toilette funéraire.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 15, p. 156, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 7, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 8, as La Toilette funéraire, 1867-69.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 15, pl. II fig. 2, as The Autopsy.
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224 and 231, fig. 12 p. 228, as L'Autopsie, 1867-1869.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 44, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 68, 121–29, pl. VII.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 22 p. 45.
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. 142, ill., vol. 2, as La Toilette funéraire (or L’Autopsie).
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 800, Rewald's date of 1869 cannot be certain.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, ill.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 11, fig. 2, as L'Autopsie, dated c. 1868.
Bray, Xavier. "Sketches of Spain: The Spanish Masters, Old Masters and the French Impressionists." In Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, Ann Dumas, ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 123 and 127, fig. 54 p. 126, as The Autopsy (Preparation for the Funeral), Private collection, courtesy of Pyms Gallery, London.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 22; vol. 2, p. 39, as La Toilette funéraire.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "La montée de Cézanne à Paris." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 17, as La Toilette funéraire.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 255, pl. 115.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 42, fig. 19.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 169, ill., as Saint Sébastien.
Notes
This work reveals the influence of Manet and the Spanish masters: possibly Ribera's Mise au tombeau (Louvre, acquired 1858) or his Christ au tombeau (exhibited at the Louvre from the beginning of January 1869), the latter being the more plausible because of a caricature of people copying it in Paris-Caprice, 1869 (see Rewald, 1996, p. 121). See also FWN 3017-17A, which is a copy of a drawing for an Entombment by Fra Bartolommeo and FWN 2111, which is a charcoal study for this work.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Toilette funéraire; L'Autopsie, 1869 (FWN 597)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=12 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
