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FWN 645
L'Après-midi à Naples ou Le grog au vin
1876–77
Alternate titles: L'Après-midi à Naples ou Le Grog au rhum; L'Après-midi à Naples, ou le Punch au rhum; L'Après-midi à Naples; also known as Le Grog au vin; Le punch napolitain; Punch au rhum
Rewald (289): 1876–77; Venturi revised: c.1871; Cézanne fils: 1875; Venturi (112): 1870–72; Rivière: 1865
Oil on canvas
5 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (14 x 24 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3794, deux personnages deshabillés, un troisième vêtu survenant un plateau à la main, 14 x 24 cm (25 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 262, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1875
Galerie Koller, Zurich

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Prince de Wagram (Alexandre Berthier), Paris (Mar. 21, 1906)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Jan. 20, 1909)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Reid & Lefèvre, London
Galerie Bénézit, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Nov. 5, 1955–1970)
Fanny and Bernard Watel, Lausanne;
Private collection;
Koller Auktionen, Zurich, November 28, 2025, no. 3216, ill.
Exhibition History
1954c London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, French Paintings, XIX and XX Centuries, 1954, no. 3, ill.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 112, ill. vol. II, as L'Après-midi à Naples, ou le Punch au rhum.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 12.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 227.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 170, ill. (with wrong date).
Reff 1963b
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's 'Dream of Hannibal.'" The Art Bulletin 45, no. 2 (June 1963), p. 151.
Badt 1965
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 291.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 53, 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. 289, ill. vol. 2, as L'Après-midi à Naples; also known as Le Grog au vin.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 310, no. 268, ill., as L'Après-midi à Naples ou Le Grog au rhum, 1870-72.
Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 129, fig. 75.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 65.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 264, ill., as Le punch napolitain.
Notes

This work could be a preparatory study for FWN 587-TA, which is lost. Rewald (1996, p. 193) noted that the "watercolor FWN 3004-53a-TA [sic] [corrected to FWN 1812] connected with this small picture may, by its date of execution, have been closer to the lost canvas of 1867 [FWN 587-TA]." 

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Record last updated October 30, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "L'Après-midi à Naples ou Le grog au vin, 1876–77 (FWN 645)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=287 (accessed on November 3, 2025).