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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Émile Zola, Médan, France;
Mme Alexandrine-Emile Zola, Paris;
Eugène Fasquelle, Paris;
M. et Mme Le Blond-Zola, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibition History
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 173.
1939 Lyon
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.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 4, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
1952–53 Paris
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 1937
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, fig. 9.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 44, 45, fig. 67.
Walter 1962
Walter, Rodolphe. "Cézanne à Bennecourt en 1866." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 59, periode 6 (February 1962), fig. 8 p. 112.
Chappuis 1973
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.
Schmitt 1995
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 17.
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. 123, ill.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 13 (the entire sheet with letter).
Notes

R. Walter (1962) identified the figure as Delphin, son of the blacksmith of Gloton (Yvelines).

Delphin travaillant avec un bêche, June 30, 1866 (FWN 1805)
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 13, 2024).