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Catalogue entry

© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 622
Le Foreur
1873–74
Alternate title: The Well Driller
Rewald (229): 1873–74; Venturi revised: circa 1877; Cézanne fils: circa1880; Venturi (1520): 1873–75
Oil on canvas
8 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (20.5 x 16 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3776, huile; ouvrier tenant de la terre une sorte de vrille, 20 x 16 cm (20 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3574, Un foreur, 20 x 15 cm (50 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 736, personnage; huile, 20 x 15 (500)
Vollard archives: photo no. 424, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1880

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris, France
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (June 15, 1936)
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1520, ill. vol. II, as Le Foreur.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 40, p. 192, ill.
Rewald 1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 229, ill. vol. 2, as Le Foreur.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 4, pp. 70–72, as The Well Driller (catalogue notes by J. Rishel and J. Warman).

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Record last updated November 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Foreur, 1873–74 (FWN 622)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=233 (accessed on March 29, 2024).