Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Still-life objects
Dishes and Vessels:
- ewer / aiguière »
Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- female nude(s) / femme nue(s) »
- male nude(s) / homme(s) nu(s) »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (Dec. 6, 1912)

Auguste Pellerin, Paris;

M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;

Private collection;

Christie's, New York, Nov. 8, 1999, no. 137, ill.

Private collection

Exhibition History

1895 Paris

Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.

1926b Paris

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]).

1954 Paris

Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 2, pl. I, lent by private collection, Paris.

1988–89a London and traveling

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.

1994–95 Paris and traveling

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.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

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.

2006–07 New York and traveling

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 1900

Geffroy, Gustave. "Paul Cézanne." In La Vie artistique, vol. 6. Paris: Floury, 1900, vol. 6, pp. 215–16.

Gasquet 1921b

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 29, pl. p. 28, as L'Orgie.

Glaser 1922

Glaser, Curt. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922, pl. 3, c. 1870.

Meier-Graefe 1922

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 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.

Gasquet 1926

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 45, pl. [8] hors texte, as L'Orgie.

Bernard 1926a

Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 94.

Fry 1927a

Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 10–13.

D'Ors 1930

Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 27.

Gasquet 1930b

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 28.

Di San Lazzaro 1936

Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 40.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXI p. 48.

Sterling 1936

Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 8, as L'Orgie.

D'Ors 1936a

Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. New York: E. Weyhe, 1936, pl. 40.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 92, ill. vol. II, as L'Orgie.

Rewald 1937a

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 1938

Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 23, as Festin.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 4, listed.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 10, listed p. 142.

Raynal 1954

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, pp. 18 (detail), 20.

Novotny 1961

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 2.

Chappuis 1962

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 1963b

Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Dream of Hannibal.'" The Art Bulletin 45, no. 2 (June 1963), p. 151, fig. 1.

Lichtenstein 1964a

Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 5.

Schapiro 1968

Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), pl. 4.

Huyghe 1971

Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 224, ill.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 26, ill.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 5.

Wadley 1975

Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1975, pl. 18.

Venturi 1978

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 54, ill.

Adriani 1978a

Adriani, Götz. Paul Cézanne. Zeichnungen. Cologne: DuMont, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, p. 308, ill., as Die Orgie, Private collection, Paris.

Boime 1980

Boime, Albert. Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, ill. XIII.29, as The Orgy.

Krumrine 1980

Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 116.

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, p. 88, ill.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 62, b/w.

Lévêque 1988

Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 50, ill. in b/w.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 38, ill.

Lewis 1989

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 173–85, fig. 98.

Wadley 1989

Wadley, Nicholas. Cézanne and His Art. London: Hamlyn, 1989, p. 22, ill. in color.

Krumrine 1989b

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 1991

Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 69, ill.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 39, fig. 24.

Cuzin et al. 1993

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.

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 149, ill.

Bozal 1995

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 et al. 1996

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 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. 128, ill. vol. 2 and p. 24, ill. col. vol. 1, as Le Festin (L'Orgie) or Le Banquet de Nebuchadnezzar.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 77, fig. 41.

Ballas 2002

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 2002

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 2003

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 2004

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 77, fig. 53.

Schmidt 2004a

Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 68.

Dittmann 2005

Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 132, ill. in b/w.

Pissarro 2005

Pissarro, Joachim. Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–85. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 45, fig. 30.

Feilchenfeldt 2005c

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 2006

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 2006

Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 6, fig. 1, as L'Orgie, dated 1867-70.

Bardazzi 2007a

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 2007b

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 2008

D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 16, ill.

Machotka 2008

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 2009

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 2011

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 2011b

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 2011d

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 183, fig. 125.

Lewis 2012

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 2013

Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 415, pl. 182.

Benedetti 2013b

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 2014

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 2017a

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 2020

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 2020

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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Record last updated April 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

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 April 23, 2024).