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 3001-08a
Hommes et femme sous un arbre
1871–74
Alternate titles: Brigands; Déjeuner sur l'herbe; Figurengruppe; Figurengruppe im Freien sitzend; Group sitting under a tree; Hommes sous un arbre
Chappuis (256); Venturi (1204): 1871–77
Graphite on wove paper, page from the BSA sketchbook
4 1/16 x 6 5/8 in. (10.3 x 16.8 cm)
Exhibition History
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Meisterzeichnungen französischer Künstler von Ingres bis Cézanne, June 29–August 18, 1935, no. 196, as Figurengruppe, lent by Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 99, 1871-77, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 94, ill., as Hommes sous un arbre, 1871-74, lent by Kupferstichkabinett Basel. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Paul Cézanne - Das zeichnerische Werk, October 21–December 31, 1978, no. 127, ill. p. 224, as Figurengruppe im Freien sitzend, 1871-1874, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel.
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Disegni di Cézanne, February 13–March 30, 1979, no. 34, ill., p. 44.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks, March 10–June 5, 1988, listed p. 146, ill. p. 60.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 20, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1204, ill. vol. II, as Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
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. 59, ill.
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. 551, as Three Men and a woman.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne Drawings." Review of Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle, by Adrien Chappuis. The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 725 (August 1963), p. 376.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, no. 245, ill.
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 256, ill., as Group sitting under a tree.
Koepplin, Dieter. Paul Cézanne: Die Basler Zeichnungen. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1988, no. 24, ill.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook 10.3 x 17, 1863–1865, 1869–1873 (3001)
Sketchbook 10.3 x 17, 1863–1865, 1869–1873 (3001)
The sketchbook is unnumbered and was disbanded in the 1930s. Most of the sheets are held in the Kunstmuseum Basel, but some were sold separately. Since the sequence is unknown, the FWN numbers have been randomly assigned. The sheets are listed here as individual pages as opposed to how they may have appeared in the sketchbook with the exception of FWN 3001-01a/b, which was separated on two half-sheets.
Browse complete sketchbookRecord last updated April 1, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Hommes et femme sous un arbre, 1871–74 (FWN 3001-08a), page from the BSA sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1912 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
