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 648-TA
Tigre, d'après Barye
1876–77
Alternate titles: A Tiger; Tigre
Rewald (298): 1876–77; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (250): 1873–77; Rivière: 1885
Oil on canvas
11 3/8 x 14 5/8 in. (29 x 37 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 27, as Tigre.
Polk Hall (Civic Auditorium), San Francisco, Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, January 4–31, 1923, no. 59, as A Tiger.
Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture de la ville de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, L’Impressionnisme : ses origines et son héritage au XIXe siècle, 1938, no. 6, as Tigre, with inverted measurements (0.38 x 27), Collection Pellerin. Traveled to: Musée des beaux-arts, Valenciennes, France, 1939?; Musée des beaux-arts, Reims, France, 1940.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 15, lent by Pellerin.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, French and American Nineteenth Century Painting, Summer 1947, no. 4.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 11, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 65, as Tigre, 1873-77.
Published References
Laurent-Pichat, L. "Salon de 1877: III." Le Phare de la Loire (June 9, 1877), p. 2, Le tigre de M. Paul Cézanne est un félin difforme, un chat malade.
Lora, Léon de. "L'exposition des impressionnistes." Le Gaulois, April 10, 1877, p. 2, animal féroce que l'artiste avait fait empailler pour le portraire.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 250, ill. vol. II, as Tigre.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Tigre.
Reff, Theodore. "Book Reviews: Cézanne und die alten Meister by Gertrude Berthold." The Art Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 1960), p. 149, Appendix, V. 250.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 47, 79; p. 84, no. 26.
Boas, Nancy. The Society of Six: California Colorists. San Francisco, 1988, pp. 101, 199, note 1.
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. 298, ill. vol. 2, as Tigre, d'après Barye .
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102, pl. 59.
Notes
After a lithograph by Antoine-Louis Barye (c.1795-1875), Study of a Tiger (L. Delteil, Le Peintre-graveur illustré, Paris 1906, vol. IV, no. 2), identified by T. Reff (1960). Cézanne owned a third state of the lithograph which was found in the artist's studio.
Additional material / links
- Delteil entry (archive.org)
Record last updated November 3, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Tigre, d'après Barye, 1876–77 (FWN 648-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=296 (accessed on September 19, 2024).
