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Catalogue entry

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
[no dimensions]
Private collection, France

Keywords

Provenance
Émile Zola, Médan, France;
Mme Alexandrine-Emile Zola, Paris;
Eugène Fasquelle, Paris;
M. et Mme Le Blond-Zola, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 173.
1939 Lyon
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.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 3, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
1952–53 Paris
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 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, fig. 3, drawing accompanying letter VIII to Zola, dated Aix, 17 janvier 1859.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, fig. 7.
Leonhard 1966
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 27, il.
Neumeyer 1967
Neumeyer, Alfred. Review of The Art of Cézanne, by Kurt Badt. The Art Bulletin 49, no. 3 (September 1967), p. 272.
Chappuis 1973
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 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 6, ill., as Dessin symbolique: La mort règne en ces lieux.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 24, ill.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 236, ill.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 17.
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. 57, fig. 2.3
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2004
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 2006
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. Études cézanniennes. Paris: Flammarion, 2006, p. 31, fig. 9.
Cézanne 2013
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 2022
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 71.
Notes

Badt (1959, p. 68) analyzed the drawing as an expression of Cezanne's hatred for his father for not allowing him to be an artist.

Dessin symbolique: La mort règne en ces lieux, January 17, 1859 (FWN 1801)

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Record last updated June 1, 2020. 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 3, 2024).