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 615
D'après Delacroix: La Barque de Dante
c.1870
Alternate titles: Copie de la Barque de Dante de Delacroix; Copie nach der Dantebarke; La Barque de Dante; La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix; The Barque of Dante
Rewald (172): c.1870; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi (125): 1870–73; Rivière: c.1868; Cooper: c.1867–68; Gowing: 1864 (Edinburgh) and 1864 or 1865 (Burlington); Ratcliffe: 1864
Oil on canvas
9 13/16 x 13 in. (25 x 33 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, New York;
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 45, as Copie de la Barque de Dante de Delacroix, lent by marquis de Magallon d'Argens.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 1, as La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix, 1864, lent by Sir Kenneth Clark. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Tate Gallery, London, The Romantic Movement, July 10–September 27, 1959, no. 52, (dated c. 1970–73).
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 5, ill. lent by Private collection, Cambridge. 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.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Prized Possessions, June 17–August 16, 1992, no. 22, pl. 127.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Copier Créer: de Turner à Picasso: 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvre, April 26–July 26, 1993, no. 169, ill., as La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix, lent by Private collection, Cambridge.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 96, as La Barque de Dante.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 93, as Copie nach der Dantebarke, c. 1868.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. [29] hors texte, as La Barque de Dante.
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 125, ill. vol. II, as La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 29, listed.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Johnson, Lee. "The Formal Sources of Delacroix's 'Barque de Dante.'" The Burlington Magazine 100, no. 664 (July 1958), Although this work is not mentioned in the article, the source material may be useful to the researcher.
Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285, 1872.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 55, note 5.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 56.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 1, p. 116, as The Barque of Dante.
Johnson, Lee. Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816–1831, vol. I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981, no. 100, pp. 73–74, listed under (g).
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. 172, ill. vol. 2, as La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 303, no. 216b, ill., as La Barque de Dante, dated circa 1864.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 18, ill., as La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 115, ill.
Stuffmann, Margret. "Hidden Propensities, Cézanne and Delacroix." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Notes
The original Delacroix is in the Louvre. It was painted in 1822 and shown in the Salon of that year. It was purchased by the French state and exhibited at the Luxembourg until 1874. Manet also made a copy in about 1854. Cézanne owned an engraving after the Delacroix painting.
Eugène Delacroix, Le Barque de Dante
Record last updated May 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: La Barque de Dante, c.1870 (FWN 615)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=179 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
