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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Prince Antoine Bibesco, Paris;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 27, 1931, no. 75, ill.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York;
Parke-Bernet, New York, Jan. 6, 1949, no. 48, ill.
Galerie de l'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Mrs. Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, Newport;
Estate of Mrs. Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, Christie's, New York, Oct. 18, 1977, no. 6, ill.; bought in;
Dorrance "Dodo" H. Hamilton, Philadelphia;
Freeman's, Philadelphia, April 29, 2018, lot 7, ill.
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (2022)
Exhibition History
1922 London
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.1925b London
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 18, as Paysage, lent by Prince Antoine Bibesco.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 7, (dated c. 1880), as La Vie des champs, lent by P. Matisse Gallery.1995–96 Paris and traveling
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 1922
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 251, ill. vol. II, as La Vie des champs.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. 282, ill. vol. 2, as La Vie des champs.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. 204, fig. 5.18, as La Vie des champs.Coutagne 2004
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 2008
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 2013
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 April 19, 2024).
