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Catalogue entry

FWN 560
Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements
c.1859
Alternate titles: Feuillage et scènes champêtres (paravent); Folding Screen with Pastoral Scenes and Decorations; Les Environs d'Aix-en-Provence
Rewald (1): c.1859; Venturi (3)
98 3/8 x 158 5/16 in. (250 x 402 cm)
Private collection

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Marlotte
(Maurice Renou, Paris?)
Paul Chadourne, Paris
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York
Private collection
Exhibition History
1974 New York
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York, Wally Findlay Galleries Proudly Present The Premier Showing of "Les Environs d'Aix-en-Provence" by Paul Cézanne, October 24–November 26, 1974, no number, as Les Environs d'Aix-en-Provence, with comments by Wally Findlay, Edgar Munhall, and André Parinaud.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 196, listed.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, p. 17, ill.
Larguier 1925
Larguier, Léo. Le Dimanche avec Paul Cézanne. Paris: L'Edition, 1925, p. 113, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 3, ill. vol. II, as Feuillage et scènes champêtres (paravent).
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, figs. 1 and 2.
Cooper 1955a
Cooper, Douglas. "Au Jas de Bouffan." L'Oeil 2 (February 15, 1955), p. 14.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 16 (detail).
Reff 1977c
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, ill. pp. 20 and 32.
Reff 1979b
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 17.
Komanecky and Butera 1984
Komanecky, Michael and Virginia Fabbri Butera. The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 43, 44, figs. 31 and 32.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 88, fig. 38.
Wattenmaker et al 1993
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 148, fig. 1 (detail).
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. 1, ill. vol. 2, as Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements.
Coutagne 2000
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 22, as Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 24, fig. 8.
Feilchenfeldt, C. 2000a
Feilchenfeldt, Christina. "Portraits." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 188, fig. 1, as Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 140, fig. 3.44, as Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements.
Reff 2004
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Early Paravent at the Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 34, ill. in color.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 425, pl. 186.
Dombrowski 2013
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 234, fig. 95.
Elderfield, Morton, Rey 2017a
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 82.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 74 p. 92.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 271, fig. 1, as Folding Screen with Pastoral Scenes and Decorations.
Notes

T. Reff (2004) makes a strong case that the background of this work is not by Cézanne, but that the figures might be.

Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements, c.1859 (FWN 560). Verso of paravent (FWN560) that is now separated from the front. This screen is now held in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence and combines the left (R2/V1) and right  (R3/V2) halves seen here.
Verso of paravent (FWN560) that is now separated from the front. This screen is now held in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence and combines the left (R2/V1) and right (R3/V2) halves seen here.
Record last updated February 3, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements, c.1859 (FWN 560)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=18 (accessed on March 28, 2024).