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 722
Le Vase rococo
1875–77
Alternate titles: Bouquet de Fleurs; Etude de fleurs; The Rococo Vase; Vase of Flowers
Rewald (265): 1875–77; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: 1877; Venturi (222): 1875–77; Rivière: 1876
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
Signed lower left in red: Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 360, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 20 or 21, as Etude de fleurs, [lent by Caillebotte?]
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 321, as Bouquet de Fleurs.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Flowers by French Painters, November 1932, no. 15, ill.
Published References
Geffroy, Gustave. "Au Luxembourg." Le Journal, February 16, 1897, p. 5, mentioned as not included among the works accepted from the Caillebotte Bequest.
Tabarant, [Adolphe]. "Le peintre Caillebotte et sa collection." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 15 (August 1, 1921), p. 413, as Bouquet de roses.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 203, listed.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 222, ill. vol. II, as Le Vase rococo.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pp. 55 and 83.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 158, ill.
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, pp. 39, 347.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 66, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, frontispiece, p. 30, ill.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 87, ill.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 66, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker. Great Paintings from the National Gallery. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1952, pp. 166–67, ill.
Waldfogel, Melvin. "Caillebotte, Vollard and Cézanne's 'Baigneurs au repos.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 65, periode 6 (February 1965), p. 115, as The Rococo Vase.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1769, ill. p. 63, as Vase of Flowers.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 156, ill.
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. 265, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase rococo.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 187, ill.
Notes
The bouquet of flowers was probably painted after an engraving and may have been Cézanne's earliest use of the constructive stroke (Rewald,1996, p.181). It was one of five paintings bequeathed to the French State by Gustave Caillebotte, although only two were accepted.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Vase rococo, 1875–77 (FWN 722)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=266 (accessed on September 8, 2024).
