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 610
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
c.1870
Alternate titles: A Picnic; Bacchanale (Déjeuner sur l'herbe); Collation sur l'herbe; Das Frühstück im Freien; Goûter sur l'herbe; Luncheon on the Grass; Picnic Lunch; The Al Fresco Luncheon (Déjeuner sur l'herbe)
Rewald (164): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (107): 1869–70; Rivière: 1867; Cooper: c.1869
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (60 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3553, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, huile. personnages assis ou debout ou marchant -- manière noire de Cezanne, 60 x 81 cm (150 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 9, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1870
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection
Private collection, New York
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, based on the fact that Degas bought it on Nov. 29, 1895 and cancelled the sale; cf. MS 421 (4,2).
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 17, pl. VII, lent by private collection, Paris.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 51, 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.
Neue Galerie, New York, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, October 27, 2011–April 2, 2012, p. 233, pl. 97.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 7, ill. Private collection, NY; catalogued but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, pl. 62 (vol. 3), as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1865.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne and his Circle: Paul Cézanne." In Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of Aesthetics. vol. I, translated by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. London: Heinemann, 1908, ill. between pp. 266, 267, as The Al Fresco Luncheon (Déjeuner sur l'herbe).
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 95.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 107, as Das Frühstück im Freien, c. 1870.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne: His Life and Art. Translated by Harold L. van Doren. New York: Nicholas Brown, 1923, ill. opp. p. 108.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 488, as Das Frühstück im Freien, c. 1870.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 399, as Bacchanale (Déjeuner sur l'herbe).
Mauny, Jacques. "Cézanne: The Old Master." Drawing and Design 2, no. 1 (January 1927), p. 18, ill.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 24, fig. 11, pl. VIII.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. X.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 5], as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture: Le retour au sujet est-il probable?" Cahiers d'Art, nos. 3 and 4 (1931), p. 129, ill.
Sterling, Charles. "Cézanne et les maîtres d'autrefois." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 8, as Goûter sur l'herbe.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 107, ill. vol. II, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 21, p. 160, ill.
Jedlicka, Gotthard. Cézanne. Berne: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1948, fig. 7, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 24, pl. VIII fig. 11, as A Picnic.
Novotny, Fritz. Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780 to 1880. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1960, p. 206, as Picnic Lunch.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 2, with comments.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Cézanne's Bathers: Form and Content." Arts Magazine 54, no. 9 (May 1980), p. 116.
Rubin, William. "From Narrative to 'Iconic' in Picasso: The Buried Allegory in Bread and Fruitdish on a Table and the Role of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." The Art Bulletin 65, no. 4 (December 1983), fig. 16, detail.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 17.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 75, ill. in b/w.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 41, ill.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 99–106, fig. 49.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 39, p. 68.
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. 164, ill. vol. 2, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 12, fig. 4, as Luncheon on the Grass.
Rubin, William. "Vom Erzählerischen zum 'Ikonischen' in Picassos frühem Werk: Die verborgene Allegorie in 'Brot und Obstschale mit Früchten auf einem Tisch]." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 83, fig. 16 (detail).
Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 27.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 110, 199, fig. 27, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 86, fig. 2.34, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 9, fig. 8, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Butler, Ruth. Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne Monet, and Rodin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 24, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 28; vol. 2, p. 42, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Lauder, Ronald S. The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century, Germany, Austria, and France. Munich and London and New York: Prestel, 2011, p. 233, pl. 97.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 38, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 304, pl. 137.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, pl. 7.
Jeancolas, Claude. Le Groupe des Batignolles, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Bazille, Cezanne, Monet, Morisot, Astruc, Zola…1865–1874. Paris: Editions FVW, 2014, p. 133, ill.
Kendall, Richard. "Cézanne and His Early Critics." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 12, 1869-70.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 173, ill., as Collation sur l'herbe.
Notes
This painting alludes to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe. There is another version of this work, probably destroyed by the artist, depicting a group of people out of doors at Bennecourt. That canvas included a still life of "a basket with blue linen and some green and black bottles." (see remarks for Groupe de personnages, c.1866, summer (586-TA))
See Jeune fille au piano—Ouverture du Tannhäuser, 1869–70 (600) for the same dress worn by the girl at the piano and the standing woman to left of center. It was a style of 1868–69 (Van Buren, 1966).
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, c.1870 (FWN 610)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=172 (accessed on December 8, 2024).
