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 1801
Dessin symbolique: La mort règne en ces lieux
January 17, 1859
Alternate titles: Lettre de Cézanne à Zola; Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (7 Janvier 1859); Symbolic drawing, inscribed La Mort règne en ces lieux
Chappuis (37)
ink on a letter to Emile Zola
Private collection, France
Provenance
M. et Mme Le Blond-Zola, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 80, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (7 Janvier 1859), lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 3, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 43, as Lettre de Cézanne à Zola, avec un dessin; January 15 [sic], 1859, lent by M. J. Le Blond.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, fig. 3, drawing accompanying letter VIII to Zola, dated Aix, 17 janvier 1859.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 27, il.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Review of The Art of Cézanne, by Kurt Badt. The Art Bulletin 49, no. 3 (September 1967), p. 272.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 37, ill., as Symbolic drawing, inscribed La Mort règne en ces lieux.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 6, ill., as Dessin symbolique: La mort règne en ces lieux.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 24, ill.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 57, fig. 2.3
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne and His Friends at Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 28.
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 31, fig. 9.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 77, ill.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 71.
Record last updated July 10, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Dessin symbolique: La mort règne en ces lieux, January 17, 1859 (FWN 1801), on a letter to Emile Zola." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1683 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
