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 647
L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante noire)
1876–77
Alternate titles: Afternoon in Naples; L'Après-midi à Naples; L'Après-midi à Naples avec une servante noire; Le Petit Déjeuner; Nachmittag in Neapel - Der Rumpunsch; Nus, l'après-midi à Naples; Un après-midi à Naples
Rewald (291): 1876–77; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Cézanne fils: circa 1877; Venturi (224): 1872–75
Oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 11/16 in. (37 x 45 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3846, huile; deux personnages nus auxquels une négresse apporte un plateau de boissons, 37 x 45 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 423, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1877
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 27, ill. shown in Washington, D.C. only. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 27, discussed pp. 96–100, pl. 66.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 11, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 39, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 43, ill., as L'Après-midi à Naples, c. 1875, lent by National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 52, ill., as L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante noire). Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bordell und Boudoir. Schauplätze der Moderne: Cézanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, January 22–May 22, 2005, no. 19, ill. p. 87, as Nachmittag in Neapel - Der Rumpunsch, 1875-77.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 46, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 56, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 59, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 11, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Ors, Eugenio d.' Paul Cézanne. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1930, pl. 29, as Le Petit Déjeuner.
Zervos, Christian. "Les Problèmes de la jeune peinture: Le retour au sujet est-il probable?" Cahiers d'Art, nos. 3 and 4 (1931), p. 208, ill.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 42.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 224, ill. vol. II, as L'Après-midi à Naples.
Laver, James. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. London: B.T. Batsford, 1937, pl. 113.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 42.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 62, fig. 28.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), fig. 11.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, pp. 96, 291, 308.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 9.
"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1985." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1406 (March 1986), p. 16, no. 95, ill., as Un après-midi à Naples, c. 1877.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 53, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 48, ill.
Dossier de l'art. no. 25, Cézanne. Dijon: Editions Faton, September - October 1995, ill. p. 78, c. 1866-67.
Doschka, Roland et al. "Das Ewig Weibliche - L'Eternel Féminin." In Das Ewig Weibliche - L'Eternel Féminin: von Renoir bis Picasso. Munich: Prestel, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 11, as Nachmittag in Neapel - Der Rumpunsch, 1875-77.
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. 291, ill. vol. 2, as L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante noire).
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 311, no. 272, ill., as L'Après-midi à Naples avec une servante noire, 1876-77.
Rishel, Joseph J., and Katherine Sachs. "The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 14, fig. 1.23, as Afternoon in Naples, dated c. 1875–77; shown with Lucien Freud's painting after this work.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le Femme exposée." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 87, fig. 37, as L'Après-midi à Naples (avec servante noire).
"Quand Cezanne rêve de Naples." In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 82, fig. 1.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 259, ill., as Nus, l'après-midi à Naples.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 128, fig. 4, as Afternoon in Naples.
Notes
Rewald (1996, pp. 193–94) connects the woman's pose and ewer with Trois baigneuses, 1874–75 (918) and the servant with Scipion (Le Nègre Scipion, c.1867 (422) and Usines près du plateau du Cengle, 1867–69 (51)); it has also been connected with Delacroix's Women of Algiers.
There is a closely related watercolor (L'Après-midi à Naples, 1870–72 (1830)).
Lucien Freud, After Cézanne, 1999-2000. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Related work
Record last updated April 7, 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 noire), 1876–77 (FWN 647)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=289 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
