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 1805
Delphin travaillant avec un bêche
June 30, 1866
Alternate titles: Delphin working with a spade; Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (30 Juin 1860); Lettres de Cézanne à Zola, 30 juin 1860
Chappuis (150)
ink on a letter to Emile Zola
Measurements unknown
Private collection, France
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 81, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola (30 Juin 1860), lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 4, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 46, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola, 30 juin 1860, lent by M. J. Le Blond.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, fig. 9.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 44, 45, fig. 67.
Walter, Rodolphe. "Cézanne à Bennecourt en 1866." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (February 1962), fig. 8 p. 112.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 150, ill., as Delphin working with a spade.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 123, ill.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 13 (the entire sheet with letter).
Record last updated January 17, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Delphin travaillant avec un bêche, June 30, 1866 (FWN 1805), on a letter to Emile Zola." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1801 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
