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 605
Contraste
c.1870
Alternate titles: Contrastes; Deux têtes ('Contrastes'); Etude
Rewald (155): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1867; Venturi (87): 1864–68; Cooper: (London) c.1869–70
Mural transferred to canvas
28 x 22 3/8 in. (71.1 x 56.8 cm)
Private collection, New York (WO-005)
Provenance
Private collection, France
Private collection, New York;
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Galerie Audin, Aix-en-Provence, France, [Exposition rétrospective réunissant des œuvres de Loubon, Monticelli, Du Veyrier ... et Turner], May 11–25, 1912.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 42, 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.
Published References
Vollard, Ambroise. "Cézanne's Studio." The Soil 1, no. 3 (March 1917), ill. between pp. 102 and 103.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 87, ill. vol. II, as Contrastes.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 3, as Deux têtes ('Contrastes'), 1864-68.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Fry, Roger. Letters of Roger Fry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1972, pp. 473–74, no. 469, mentioned in letter to Vanessa Bell, Aix, November 30, 1919.
Lafaille, Maurice. Chronique d’une galerie de tableaux sous l’occupation. (Paris): Editions Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille et Marval, 1988, pp. 69-70, pl. V, as Contraste.
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. 155, ill. vol. 2, as Contraste.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "Cézanne's Paintings in the Grand Salon at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 69, ill. in color.
Coutagne, Denis. "Ce que Cézanne a dit et vu Courbet." In Courbet/Cézanne, La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, fig. 7.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, figs. 105, 230 pp. 121, 245 (fig. 227 digital reconstitution of the Jas de Bouffan's Grand Salon after 1867 p. 243).
Notes
Cézanne painted this mural on the wall of the grand salon at the Jas de Bouffan. Venturi (1936, p. 85) saw the possible influence of Courbet's The Lovers (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon) in this painting.
Interior of the salon of the Jas de Bouffan in 1912.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Record last updated February 21, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Contraste, c.1870 (FWN 605), Mural transferred to canvas." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=163 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
