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 612
Les Voleurs et l'âne
c.1870
Alternate titles: Der Esel und die Diebe; Der Esel und die Räuber; Die Eseldiebe; Die Räuber und der Esel; I ladri e l'asino; La Caverne des brigands; Les contrebandiers; Les voleurs d'âne; Los ladrones y el asno; Voleurs d'Ane
Rewald (163): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (108): 1869–70; Rivière: c.1870; Vollard: 1870; Gowing: (London) c.1869–70
Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (41 x 55 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3535, huile; manière noire. scène de brigands; au milieu se tient un petit âne blanc, 41 x 54 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3572, Les voleurs et l'âne, 41 x 55 cm (150 frs)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5230, Les voleurs et l'âne (10,000 Fr)
Vollard archives: photo no. 340, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1870
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 9, as Les Voleurs et l'âne, lent by Pellerin.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912-1913, Erste Ausstellung, October 24–December 2, 1912, no. 32, as Die Räuber und der Esel, lent by Vollard.
Moderne Galerie [Heinrich Thannhauser], Munich, [unknown title], December 1912, no. 5, as Die Räuber und der Esel.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, Sommer 1913, [Zehnte Ausstellung], July– c. September 26, 1913, ill., as Der Esel und die Diebe.
Kunstverein Gemäldegalerie, Cologne, Eröffnungsausstellung, October–November 1913, no. 7, as Der Esel und die Räuber.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 2, as Der Esel und die Diebe.
Galerie Hugo Perls, Berlin, Von Delacroix bis Picasso: Hundert Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen französischer Meister des XIX. Jahrhunderts, February–March 1925, no. 3, as Die Eseldiebe.
Hugo Perls, Berlin, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Zweite Ausstellung, January–February 1927, no. 7, as Die Eseldiebe.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Hollandsche en Fransche schilderkunst der XIXe en XXe eeuw: keuze-tentoonstelling - Exhibition of selected Dutch and French pictures of the XIXth and XXth centuries, April 27–May 28, 1932, no. 58 bis, as Les Voleurs et l'âne.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, Exposition d'art français: peinture du XIXme et XXme siècle, January 7–February 4, 1933, no. 2, as Les voleurs d'âne.
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, [Fransche Kunst], Summer 1934.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 3, ill. 1869-70. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 3, ill.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 6, ill. lent by Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Col. Grassi), Milano. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 41, 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.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 110, ill., as I ladri e l'asino, lent by Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan.
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Cézanne a Firenze: Due collezionisti e la mostra dell'impressionismo del 1910 [In English:Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism], March 2–July 29, 2007, ill., pp. 120–21, as Les Voleurs et l'âne.
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi, October 20, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 15, ill., as Les Voleurs et l'âne, lent by Galleria d'Arte Moderna.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 18, ill.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne e gli artisti italiani del '900, October 5, 2013–February 2, 2014, no. 5, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 1, ill., as Les Voleurs et l'âne, lent by Galeria d'Arte moderna, Milan.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 94.
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 183, as Der Esel und die Diebe, Rothermundt collection, Dresden.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 106, as Der Esel und die Diebe, c. 1870.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 199, listed.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 22, as Der Esel und die Diebe.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. IX.
M.V. "Hollandsche en Fransche schilderkunst. Bji Van Wisselingh & Co." Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam), May 3, 1932, p. 9, as Les voleurs d'âne.
Niehaus, Kasper. "Fransches Meesters. Van Corot tot Picasso: Schilderijen uit de 19de en 20e eeuw." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), January 8, 1933, p. 5, as Les voleurs d'âne.
Wolf, N.H. "Fransche schilderkunst van de 19de en 20ste eeuw." De kunst: een algemeen geïllustreerd en artistiek weekblad 25, no. 1291 (January 14, 1933), p. 126, as Les voleurs d'âne.
Engelman, Jan. "Fransche Kunst." Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant (Haarlem), August 20, 1934, p. 8, as Voleurs d'Ane.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 108, ill. vol. II, as Les Voleurs et l'âne.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 18, ill. p. 158 (analysis pp. 307–08).
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, cited under no. 761.
"Cézanne, una exposición excepcional." Información Cultural (Madrid), no. 10 (March 1984), ill. p. 3.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, pl. 6.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 59, ill. in color.
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 63, as Los ladrones y el asno, 1869-1870.
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. 163, ill. vol. 2, as Les Voleurs et l'âne.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 50, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 319, pl. 148.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Galerie Ausstellung: 24. Oktober bis 2. Dezember." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 74, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 179, ill., as Les contrebandiers.
Notes
The subject is based on The Golden Ass by Apuleius.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Voleurs et l'âne, c.1870 (FWN 612)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=171 (accessed on September 20, 2024).
