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FWN 587-TA

L'Après-midi à Naples or Le Grog au vin

1866–67

Alternate titles: Après-midi à Naples; L'après-midi à Naples ou Le grog au vin; Le grog au vin; Un après-midi à Naples, ou le Grog au vin

Rewald (115): 1866–67

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Whereabouts unknown (probably destroyed by the artist)

Provenance

Whereabouts unknown (probably destroyed by the artist)

Published References

Magnard 1867

F.[rancis] M.[agnard]. "Paris au jour le jour." Le Figaro, April 8, 1867, p. 2, as Le grog au vin.

Zola 1867

Zola, Émile. "Correspondance: Mon cher confrère, […]." Le Figaro, April 12, 1867, p. 2, as Le grog au vin.

Coquiot 1919

Coquiot, Gustave. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Ollendorf, 1919, pp. 37-38, as Après-midi à Naples.

Vollard 1938

Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 20 et p. 21, as Un après-midi à Naples, ou le Grog au vin.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 85.

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. 115.

Notes

This work, probably titled by Antoine Guillemet, was rejected from the Salon (1867). A critic named Arnold Mortier wrote in Le Nain jaune (republished in the April 8, 1867 edition of Le Figaro) that the jury had turned down two paintings by the artist that were "worthy of exclusion." "These compositions are entitled: Le Grog au vin. One of them depicts a nude man to whom a very dressed-up woman has just brought a wine grog; the other portrays a nude woman and a man dressed as a lazzarone: in this one the grog is spilt." (quoted in Rewald, 1996, p. 105)

Emile Zola sent a protest to the newspaper: "M. Paul Césanne [sic], in excellent and numerous company [Bazille, Guillemet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley], has indeed had two canvases rejected this year.... I insist at least on saying that M. Arnold Mortier's descriptions are inaccurate." (Rewald, 1996, p. 105)

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Record last updated February 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Après-midi à Naples or Le Grog au vin, 1866–67 (FWN 587-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=126 (accessed on April 25, 2024).