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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris;
Caillebotte Bequest (1894); withdrawn by the executors;
Martial Caillebotte, Paris
André Weil (Galerie Matignon), Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris and New York
Chester Dale, New York (Nov. 29, 1932);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1963)
Exhibition History
1877 Paris
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 20 or 21, as Etude de fleurs, [lent by Caillebotte?]
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1905b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 321, as Bouquet de Fleurs.
1932f New York
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Flowers by French Painters, November 1932, no. 15, ill.
Published References
Geffroy 1897
Geffroy, Gustave. "Au Luxembourg." Le Journal, February 16, 1897, p. 5, mentioned as not included among the works accepted from the Caillebotte Bequest.
Tabarant 1921b
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 203, listed.
Vollard 1931
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), pp. 394.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 222, ill. vol. II, as Le Vase rococo.
Vollard 1937
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pp. 55 and 83.
Goldwater 1938
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 1940
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, pp. 39, 347.
National Gallery of Art 1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 66, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, frontispiece, p. 30, ill.
Jewell 1944b
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 87, ill.
Ladies Home Journal 1947
Ladies Home Journal (April 1947), ill. on cover.
Chester Dale 1948
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 66, ill., as Vase of Flowers.
Cairns and Walker 1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker. Great Paintings from the National Gallery. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1952, pp. 166–67, ill.
Waldfogel 1965
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.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, pl. 12.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50.
National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1769, ill. p. 63, as Vase of Flowers.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
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 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. 265, ill. vol. 2, as Le Vase rococo.
Cézanne 2013
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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Record last updated April 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 March 28, 2024).