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Catalogue entry

Venturi-Rewald Photo Archive, NGA Library
FWN 568-TA
La Visitation
c.1860
Alternate titles: Etude pour une scène religieuse; La Mère des sept-douleurs
Rewald (11): c.1860; Venturi revised: 1860–62; Venturi (15): 1860–62; Rivière: 1858
Oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (27 x 20 cm)
at bottom: in red: La mère des 7 douleurs - Belzébuth
Whereabouts unknown

Keywords

Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 31, 1944, no. 8
Private collection, Paris
Whereabouts unknown
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, as La Mère des sept-douleurs.
Rivière 1929
Rivière, Georges. "Les premiers essais de Paul Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 111 (August 1, 1929), p. 601, ill., as Etude pour une scène religieuse.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 15, ill. vol. II, as La Visitation.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, p. 16.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Beucken 1962
Beucken, Jean de. Cézanne. New York: Viking Press, 1962, p. 18, ill.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, p. 47, fig. 17.
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. 11, ill. vol. 2, as La Visitation.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 68, fig. 2.16, as La Visitation.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 16; vol. 2, p. 35, as La Visitation, ill. in B/W.
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 310, fig. 142.
Notes

Venturi (1936) described the colors in the painting as: "ciel et paysage bleu-gris. Maison gris-brun; branche et feuilles de l'arbre vert-brun. Vêtements des personnages rouge-brique, sauf le manteau de la Vierge qui est noir. Tête de Belzébuth; cheveux noirs et flammes rouge. L'homme monté sur un âne est en gris."

Record last updated October 27, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Visitation, c.1860 (FWN 568-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=27 (accessed on April 20, 2024).