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 732
Fleurs dans un vase
c.1877
Alternate titles: Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase; Etude de fleurs; Le bouquet
Rewald (315): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1873; Cézanne fils: circa 1875; Venturi (182): 1873–75
Oil on canvas
22 x 18 1/8 in. (56 x 46 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 143 and [183], Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1875
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 20 or 21, as Etude de fleurs.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 4, ill.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 55.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century: From the Stocks of Soviet Art Museums, 1960, p. 34.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de l'Ermitage et de Moscou, May 14–September 6, 1965, no. 55, pl. 18, as Fleurs dans un vase, c. 1873-75, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Traveled to: Paris, September 1965–January 1966.
Réunion des musée nationaux, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture française dans les musées de Leningrad et de Moscou, September 1965–January 1966, no. 47, ill., as Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase, c. 1873-75, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 46, ill. 1873-1875.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974–75, no. 43.
Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France, La Peinture impressionniste et post-impressionniste au Musée de l'Ermitage, May 23–July 3, 1978, no. 2, ill., as Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase, c. 1872-1875.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Capolavori impressionisti e postimpressionisti dai musei sovietici, June 14–October 15, 1983, no. 2, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist to Early Modern Paintings from the U.S.S.R., May 1–June 15, 1986, no. 3, ill. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 26–August 12, 1986; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 23–October 5, 1986.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 34, ill., 121 (dated c. 1874), as Fleurs dans un vase. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland, Victor Chocquet: Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, February 20–June 7, 2015, no. 18, ill.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 283, 437, ill.
Published References
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Collection Shchukin." Apollon, no. 1-2 (January-February 1914), nos. 1 and 2.
Pertsov, Petr. Collection de la peinture française de Shchukin. Moscow: Sabashnikovykh, 1922, p. 115, no. 209.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. after p. 140.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, as Le bouquet.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 60.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 545.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 727.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 182, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs dans un vase.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 1, listed p. 338, as Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, p. 112, pl. 90 and fig. 28.
The State Hermitage, Department of Western European Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Leningrad and Moscow, 1958, p. 187, no. 394, ill.
Levinson-Lessing, Vladimir F. Occidental Art at the Hermitage Museum. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1958, p. 444, no. 8954.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pp. 113–14, pl. 90.
Boudaille, Georges. Le Musée de l'Ermitage: Peintures, dessins. Paris: Musée de l'Ermitage, 1961, pl. 38.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Champa, Kermit. "Paris: From Russia with Love." Arts Magazine (September–October 1965), p. 56, ill.
Izergina, Antonina Nikolaevna. The Hermitage, Leningrad: French 19th Century Masters. Prague: Artia, 1968, pl. 49.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50; p. 84, no. 29.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 37, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 127-128, pl. 7.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 154, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 143, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 6, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 452, fig. 51.
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. 315, ill. vol. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fleurs dans un vase, c.1877 (FWN 732)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=312 (accessed on February 8, 2025).