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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 26, ill.
[Max?] Behrendt, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
Auguste Pellerin, Paris;
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, London, and New York
H.G. Turitz, Göteborg (by 1951)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibition History
1877 Paris
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 27, as Tigre.
1910e Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, La Faune, December 19–30, 1910, no. 98, as Tigre.
1923 San Francisco
Polk Hall (Civic Auditorium), San Francisco, Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, January 4–31, 1923, no. 59, as A Tiger.
1938–40 Grenoble and traveling
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.
1939d London
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 15, lent by Pellerin.
1947c New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, French and American Nineteenth Century Painting, Summer 1947, no. 4.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 11, ill. lent by Wildenstein.
1954 Stockholm
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Cézanne till Picasso, fransk konst i svensk ägo, September 1954, no. 65, as Tigre, 1873-77.
Published References
Laurent-Pichat 1877
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 1877
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 250, ill. vol. II, as Tigre.
Rewald 1937a
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.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 40, 135.
Reff 1960c
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 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 47, 79; p. 84, no. 26.
Brion 1971
Brion, Marcel. Cézanne. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971, ill. p. 75.
Boas 1988
Boas, Nancy. The Society of Six: California Colorists. San Francisco, 1988, pp. 101, 199, note 1.
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. 298, ill. vol. 2, as Tigre, d'après Barye .
Warman 2015
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.

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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 March 28, 2024).