Catalogue entry

FWN 1819

La Lecture au jardin

c.1868

Alternate titles: Figurengruppe an einem Tisch im Freien; Reading in the garden

Chappuis (223)

Graphite on paper

4 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (12.5 x 22.6 cm)

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934.167)

Keywords

Figure compositions:
- figure(s) in landscape or figure composition »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- garden / jardin »

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris

Werner Feuz, Bern

Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett (1934)

Exhibition History

1978 Tübingen

Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 29, ill. p. 122, as Figurengruppe an einem Tisch im Freien, c. 1868, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.

1979 Rome

Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 30, ill., p. 41 (right).

2017 Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 53, ill.

Published References

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 351, listed (Museum Basel).

Scolari and Barr 1938

Scholari, Margaret, and Alfred Barr. "Cézanne in the Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865–68." Magazine of Art 31, no. 2 (February 1938), pp. 84–89; no. 4 (April 1938).

Chappuis 1962

Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, no. 53, ill.

Cooper 1963a

Cooper, Douglas. "Untitled." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. Master Drawings, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1963), p. 56.

Andersen 1970

Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 243, ill.

Chappuis 1973

Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 223, ill., as Reading in the garden.

Notes

Andersen and Chappuis refer to a letter from Marion to Morstatt of May 24, 1868 that alludes to a project of Cezanne's: "Cezanne projette un tableau auquel il fera servir les portraits. L'un de nous, au milieu d'un paysage, parlera tandis que les autres écouteront."

Related work

Record last updated February 22, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Lecture au jardin, c.1868 (FWN 1819)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1876 (accessed on May 1, 2025).