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 3018-x4a
La Toilette
1895–1900
Alternate title: The Toilette
Rewald (W386); Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, possibly page from the CP IV sketchbook
8 x 10 1/2 in. (20.3 x 26.6 cm)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Exhibition History
Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Early Masters of Modern Art: A Local Collection Exhibited Anonymously, November–December 1959, no. 4.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, French and American Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Celebrated New Orleans Collection, June 10–July 30, 1961, no. 4.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 78, pl. 55.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 38, ill.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 45, Private collection, New York.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, fig. 46.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 41, p. 127, as La Toilette.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 386, ill.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 280, no. 45, ill.
Rényi, András. "The Enchantement of Proximity." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 5.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 131, fig. 7, as The Toilette.
Notes
Inspired by Delacroix's painting Le lever which Cezanne probably knew from a reproduction in L'Artiste from 1851.
This sheet was split in two.
Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
Photo: © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
Sketchbook Chappuis IV (CP IV), 1881; 1884–1900 (3018)
The individual sheets in this sketchbook have been widely dispersed. Each page is numbered in Roman numerals.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated April 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Toilette, 1895–1900 (FWN 3018-x4a), possibly page from the CP IV sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1367 (accessed on March 24, 2025).
