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 1759
Fumeur accoudé
1890–91
Alternate titles: Le Fumeur; Le fumeur accoudé; Leaning Smoker
Rewald (W381); Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (1087): 1895–1900; Rivière: c.1892
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
18 11/16 x 14 1/8 in. (47.4 x 35.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 68, as Le Fumeur, lent by M. L.D. Stein.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 198.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 239.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. C, dated 1896, Stein Collection, Paris.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 141, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1087, ill. vol. II, as Le fumeur accoudé.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, p. 94, p. 291, ill., p. 422, no. 203.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 131, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 23, no. 12, ill. (dated 1895–1900), Barnes Foundation, Merion.
Novotny, Fritz. "Cézanne als Zeichner." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 14 (1950), p. 230, fig. 115.
Schmidt, Georg. Aquarelle von Paul Cézanne. Mit zweiundreissig vielfarbigen Tafeln. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1952, fig. 29.
Novotny, Fritz. Über das "Elementare" in der Kunstgeschichte und andere Aufsätze. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum, 1968, p. 82, fig. 44 p. 167.
Anonymous. Four Americans in Paris: The Collection of Getrude Stein and Her Family. New York, 1970, pp. 88 and 90.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 142.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 381, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 59, fig. 37.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 342, fig. 3, as Fumeur accoudé, 1890-1891.
Ireson, Nancy and Wright Barnaby. "Cézanne's Card Player. An Introduction." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 138, fig. 59.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 397, no. 19, ill., as Leaning Smoker.
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 150, no. 2 in fig. 60, as Fumeur accoudé.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176, fig. 52.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 59.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 69, pp. 347–51 (fig. 3, verso), as Leaning Smoker (catalogue notes by F. Ruppen).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fumeur accoudé, 1890–91 (FWN 1759)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1362 (accessed on May 21, 2025).
