The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Catalogue entry
FWN 646
L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante blanche)
1876–77
Alternate titles: L'Après-midi à Naples; Personnages
Rewald (290): 1876–77; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: circa 1877; Venturi (223): 1872–75; Cooper: 1872–73; Ratcliffe: 1872; Other: P Gachet: 1873
Oil on canvas
11 13/16 x 15 11/16 in. (30 x 40 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3839, huile; 2 personnages nus auxquels une bonne apporte un plateau de boissons, 30 x 40 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 422, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1877
Private collection, London
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
M. et Mme René Lecomte, Paris;
Private collection;
Pellerin Collection, Christie's, New York, Nov. 8, 1999, no. 130, ill.
Lucian Freud, London;
Private collection, London
Exhibition History
1954 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 23, lent by private collection, Paris.1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 8, discussed pp. 96–100, pl. 65.2016 London
National Gallery, London, Painters' Painting: From Freud to Van Dyck, June 23–September 4, 2016, no. 3, ill., p. 3.2017 Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 61, ill.2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 9, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.Published References
Wolff 1886
Wolff, Albert. La Gloire à Paris. Paris: Victor-Harvard, 1886, p. 48 (described).Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XVI p. 44.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 223, ill. vol. II, as L'Après-midi à Naples.Beucken 1955
Beucken, Jean de. Un portrait de Cézanne. Paris: Gallimard, [1955], p. 122.Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pp. 226–27, 240–41.Lichtenstein 1964a
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964).Schapiro 1968
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 39, pl. 11.Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 57, 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. 290, ill. vol. 2, as L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante blanche).Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 311, no. 270, ill., as L'Après-midi à Naples, 1872-75.Andersen 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 122, fig. 66; p. 128, fig. 74 (detail).Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 87; vol. 2, p. 78, as L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante blanche).Baker 2016
Baker, Christopher. "Painters' Paintings." The Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1362 (September 2016), p. 748, fig. 46.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 171, ill., as Personnages.
Lucien Freud, After Cézanne, 1999-2000. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Record last updated April 5, 2021. 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 (avec servante blanche), 1876–77 (FWN 646)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=288 (accessed on April 23, 2024).
