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 1818-TA
Lecture chez Zola
1869–70
Alternate titles: Reading at Zola's; Zola et Alexis
Venturi (1198): 1869–70; Chappuis (221): 1867–69
Graphite on paper
5 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (13 x 15.5 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1198, ill. vol. II, as Zola et Alexis.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne's Portrait Drawings from the 1860's." Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1967), p. 277, pl. 23.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 248, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 221, ill., as Reading at Zola's.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 141, fig. 75.
Klemm, Christian. "La lecture de Paul Alexis chez Zola, 1869/70 (Paul Alexis liest Zola vor)." In Degas, Cézanne, Picasso: Meisterwerke aus Privatbesitz, Wismer, Beat, ed. Cologne and Aarau: Wienand Verlag and Aargauer Kunsthaus, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 120, as Lecture chez Zola, erroneously listed as Chappuis 220.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 132, fig. 50.
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Record last updated August 20, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Lecture chez Zola, 1869–70 (FWN 1818-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1874 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
