Catalogue entry

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)

Sotheby's, New York

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Studies
After paintings and works on paper:
- Delacroix »

Provenance

Joachim Gasquet, Aix-en-Provence, France

Xavier de Magallon, Aix-en-Provence (friend of Gasquet's)

Alfred Gold, Paris

Eugène Blot, Paris;

Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Apr. 23, 1937, no. 52, pl. III

Storran Gallery, London

Kenneth Clark, London;

Lady Clark, London

E.V. Thaw, New York

Private collection, New York;

Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2019, no. 176, Ill.

Exhibition History

1930a Paris

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.

1939a London

Storran Gallery, London, Paraphrases, February–March 1939, no. 51, lent by Clark.

1954 Edinburgh and traveling

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.

1959a London

Tate Gallery, London, The Romantic Movement, July 10–September 27, 1959, no. 52, (dated c. 1970–73).

1988–89a London and traveling

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.

1992a Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Prized Possessions, June 17–August 16, 1992, no. 22, pl. 127.

1993b Paris

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 1921b

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, pl. p. 96, as La Barque de Dante.

Meier-Graefe 1922

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 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 198, listed.

Gasquet 1926

Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, pl. [29] hors texte, as La Barque de Dante.

Dormoy 1930

Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.

Neugass 1930

Neugass, Fritz. "Paul Cézanne." Der Cicerone 22 , no. 4 (1930), p. 106, c. 1868.

Iavorskaia 1935a

Iavorskaia, Nina. Cézanne. Moscow: Ogiz-Izogiz, 1935, pl. 5.

Venturi 1936b

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 and de Mazia 1939

Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 29, listed.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 24, 134.

Beucken 1955

Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 289.

Gowing 1956

Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 187.

Berthold 1958

Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.

Johnson 1958

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 1964

Andersen, Wayne V. "A Cézanne Self-portrait Drawing Reidentified." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 735 (June 1964), p. 285, 1872.

Lichtenstein 1964a

Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), p. 55, note 5.

Rewald 1969

Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 56.

Lichtenstein 1975

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 1981

Johnson, Lee. Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816–1831, vol. I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981, no. 100, pp. 73–74, listed under (g).

Bonafoux 1995

Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 207, ill.

Rewald 1996

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 2002

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 2011

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 2013

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 2017

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 26, 2024).