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 641
La Vie des champs
1876–77
Alternate titles: Landscape; Paysage
Rewald (282): 1876–77; Venturi revised: c.1872; Venturi (251): 1875–76
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 13 13/16 in. (26 x 35 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3314, Ferme, paysage très vert. au premier plan un homme assis auprès d'un cheval, une femme en rouge est debout portant une cruche sur la tête, 26 x 31 cm (50 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 17, as Landscape, lent by Bibesco.
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 18, as Paysage, lent by Prince Antoine Bibesco.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 7, (dated c. 1880), as La Vie des champs, lent by P. Matisse Gallery.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 43, ill. shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Published References
Sickert, Walter. "French Art of the Nineteenth Century - London." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 40, no. 231 (June 1922), fig. C p. [264], as Landscape.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 251, ill. vol. II, as La Vie des champs.
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. 282, ill. vol. 2, as La Vie des champs.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 204, fig. 5.18, as La Vie des champs.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 86, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 78; vol. 2, p. 73, as La Vie des champs.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 232, pl. 110.
Notes
For a watercolor of the same subject, see Rewald (1983) no. W51.
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Record last updated May 19, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Vie des champs, 1876–77 (FWN 641)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=281 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
