The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 609
Pastorale
1870
Alternate titles: Bacchanale (Scène de plein air); Don Quichotte sur les rives de Barbarie; Fête au Bord de la mer; Idyll or Pastorale scene; Idylle; L'Idylle; L'Idylle (Pastorale); Pastoral; Pastoral (Idyll); Pastorale (Idylle); Pastorale ou Idylle; Scène de plein air; Scène en plein air
Rewald: (166) 1870; Venturi revised: 1870; Venturi: (104) 1870; Rivière: 1875; Vollard: 1870
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Dated 1870 at right
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 15–December 1899, no. 23, as Fête au Bord de la mer, tentative identification.
Galerie Vollard, Paris, January 20–February 20, 1901, no. 23, as Amours pastorales; tentative identification.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 12, pl. X, as Idylle, lent by Pellerin.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 344, ill., as Pastoral, 1870, lent by Private collection.
Orangerie, Paris, Monticelli et le baroque provençal, June 19–September 15, 1953, no. 11, as L'Idylle, 1870, lent by Private collection, Paris.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 3, ill. lent by Pellerin.
Tate Gallery, London, The Romantic Movement, July 10–September 27, 1959, no. 50.
Grand Palais, Paris, Anciens et Nouveaux: Choix d'oeuvres acquises par l'état ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985, November 5, 1985–February 3, 1986, no. 128.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, From Courbet to Cézanne: A New 19th Century Preview of the Musée d'Orsay, March 13–May 5, 1986, no. 2, ill., pp. 44-45, as Idyll or Pastorale scene. Traveled to: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 1–August 3, 1986.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 52, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19–January 1, 1988. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, January 29–April 30, 1989.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 5, ill., discussed pp. 75–81, pl. 40.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 34, fig. 161. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 23, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 7, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 27, fig. 32, pp. 32, 336, as Pastorale. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 6, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 33, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Published References
Béral, Jean. "Impressionnistes: Cézanne." Art et Littérature, no. 1 (February 5, 1901), p. 7, as Amours pastorales; tentative identification.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co. 1907, ill. p. 177 as Idylle, 1870-71.
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Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 7.
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Ballas, Guila. "Unknown Sources for Cézanne's Women Bathers." In Norms and Variations in Art: Essays in Honor of Moshe Barasch. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1983, p. 185, fig. 4.
Lacambre, Geneviève et Thiébaut Philippe. Catalogue sommaire illustré des nouvelles acquisitions du Musée d’Orsay: 1980-1983. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, p. 16, no. 26, ill. as Pastorale ou Idylle.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Douze Oeuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), p. 131, no. 4.
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Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.
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Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 111, 114, 200, fig. 28 as Pastorale.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, fig. 4b p. 16, fig. a (detail) p. 266, p. 309, no. 258, ill. as L'Idylle (Pastorale), 1870.
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Rishel, Joseph J. "Introduction." In Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 9, fig. 11 as Pastoral.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 150, pl. 48.
Gottlieb, Lennart. Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41. Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 182, fig. 124.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 60, fig. 10 as Pastorale (Idylle).
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 16.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 13.
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Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Pastorale, 1870 (FWN 609)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=174 (accessed on January 15, 2021).