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 1970
Nature morte au pot au lait bleu
1900–06
Alternate titles: Äpfel und Geschirr; Nature morte; Nature morte au pot à lait bleu; Still Life; Still Life with Blue Pot
Rewald (W572); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1147): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1900
Watercolor on paper
18 15/16 x 24 7/8 in. (48.1 x 63.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 24, as Nature morte, lent by Charles Loeser; (tentative identification).
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, Das Stilleben in der Deutschen und Französischen Malerein von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart, mid-February–mid-March 1927, no. 90, ill., p. 39, as Äpfel und Geschirr.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 1, as Still Life.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 93, 1895/1900, lent by Private collection.
Marlborough Galleries, London, A Great Period of French Painting: an exhibtion held in memory of the late Clarçia Davidson, June 1963, no. 6, ill., as Nature morte, c. 1895-1900.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, May 24–August 8, 1993.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, October 29, 1993–February 23, 1994.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 197, ill. in color, 460, as Nature morte au pot au lait bleu, 1900-1906, lent by The J. Paul Getty Musuem, Malibu, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Defining Modernity: European Drawings 1800-1900, May 1–June 15, 2001.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolor, October 12, 2004–January 2, 2005, pl. 1, cover (detail) and several detail images, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Defining Modernity: European Drawings 1800-1900, June 5–September 9, 2007.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 213, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 72, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Biermann, Georg. "Das Stilleben in der deutschen und französischen Malerei." Der Cicerone 19, no. 5 (1927), ill. p. 151, as Äpfel und Geschirr.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1147, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 135, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 141.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 572, ill. and color pl. 43.
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1991, pl. 369, as Still Life.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 35, fig. 27, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Conisbee, Philip. "Watercolours by Cézanne, Los Angeles." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1222 (January 2005), p. 69, fig. 72, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 619, no. 1478, ill. in color, as Nature morte au pot à lait bleu, 1900-1906.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, pp. 294–95, fig. 211, dated c. 1900.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 258, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 97, ill., as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 22, ill. (provenance discussed pp. 43–44.
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Record last updated June 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte au pot au lait bleu, 1900–06 (FWN 1970)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1554 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
