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 596
Le Festin – L'orgie; Le banquet de Nabuchodonosor
c.1867 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Die Orgie; Die Orgie/ Wandbild; Festin; L'Orgie; La orgía o Bacanal; Le banquet; Le Festin (L'orgie); Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar; Nus, l'orgie; The Feast; The Feast (The Orgy); The Orgy
Rewald (128): 1867 (possibly later); Venturi revised: 1868–70; Venturi (92): 1864–68; Rivière: 1868; Vollard: 1868; Cooper: c.1867–68; Gowing: c.1873 (Burlington) and circa 1870 (London); Machotka et al: 1867–72
Oil on canvas
51 3/16 x 31 7/8 in. (130 x 81 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 531, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1867
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 21, as Le banquet (see note cat. no. 58[b]).
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 2, pl. I, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 39, 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.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 33, pp. 351–52, fig. 59. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 14, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 26, fig. 31, pp. 31, 336, as Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Published References
Geffroy, Gustave. "Paul Cézanne." In La Vie artistique, vol. 6. Paris: Floury, 1900, vol. 6, pp. 215–16.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 29, pl. p. 28, as L'Orgie.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 95, as Die Orgie/ Wandbild, c. 1868.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 45, pl. [8] hors texte, as L'Orgie.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 94.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 40.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 8, as L'Orgie.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 92, ill. vol. II, as L'Orgie.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56, as L'Orgie.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 23, as Festin.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 4, listed.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 35, fig. 2.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Dream of Hannibal.'" The Art Bulletin 45, no. 2 (June 1963), p. 151, fig. 1.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 5.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pl. 4.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 26, ill.
Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 308, ill., as Die Orgie, Private collection, Paris.
Boime, Albert. Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, ill. XIII.29, as The Orgy.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 116.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, p. 88, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 62, b/w.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 50, ill. in b/w.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 38, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 173–85, fig. 98.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 23 p. 46.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 69, ill.
Cuzin, Jean Pierre et al. Copier créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 444, fig. 318a, as L'Orgie.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 86, ill. p. 87, as La orgía o Bacanal, 1864-68, Private collection, Paris.
Doschka, Roland et al. "Das Ewig Weibliche - L'Eternel Féminin." In Das Ewig Weibliche - L'Eternel Féminin: von Renoir bis Picasso. Munich: Prestel, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 10, as Die Orgie, c. 1870.
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. 128, ill. vol. 2 and p. 24, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 308, no. 242, ill., as Le Festin (L'orgie), c. 1867.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Paul Cézanne - La Passione per il visibile." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 52.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 67, fig. 2.14, as Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 77, fig. 53.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 132, ill. in b/w.
Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 30.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 200, ill.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 31, as The Feast (The Orgy).
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 6, fig. 1, as L'Orgie, dated 1867-70.
Bardazzi, Francesca. "Cézanne a Firenze." In Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'Impressionismo del 1910. Milan: Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, ill. in color.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, ill., as Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 16, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 20; vol. 2, p. 38, as Le Festin (L'orgie).
Storr, Robert. "La Famille Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 42, pl. 1, as The Feast, dated c. 1867-72.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, fig. 9.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 36, as Le Festin (L'orgie).
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 183, fig. 125.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne and the Louvre." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 104, fig. 58, as The Orgy.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 415, pl. 182.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 79, fig. 110.
Jeancolas, Claude. Le Groupe des Batignolles, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Bazille, Cezanne, Monet, Morisot, Astruc, Zola…1865–1874. Paris: Editions FVW, 2014, p. 65, ill. dated c. 1870.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "A Mellow Rekindling of Earlier Fires, Still Life and Metamorphosis, Early to Late Cézanne." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 256, ill., as Nus, l'orgie.
Tapié, Alain. "De la nature de l'art vers l'art de la nature." In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 34, fig. 1.
Notes
Scholars have suggested various sources for this paintings among them The Marriage of Cana (Veronese), Capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders and The Women of Algiers(Delacroix), possibly Expulsion of Heliodorus mural at St-Sulpice (S. Lichentstein, 1964) or an early poem by the artist (Reff, 1963). For a full analysis, see Lewis 1969.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Festin – L'orgie; Le banquet de Nabuchodonosor, c.1867 (possibly later) (FWN 596)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=139 (accessed on December 11, 2024).
