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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
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Keywords

Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 29
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Sergei Shchukin, Moscow (1904);
First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);
State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (1948)
Exhibition History
1877 Paris
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 20 or 21, as Etude de fleurs.
1926 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 4.
1956a Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 4, ill.
1956b Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 55.
1960 Moscow
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art of the Second Half of the 19th Century: From the Stocks of Soviet Art Museums, 1960, p. 34.
1965 Bordeaux and traveling
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.
1965–66c Paris
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.
1974 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.
1974–75 Moscow
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974–75, no. 43.
1978 Le Havre
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.
1983 Lugano
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Capolavori impressionisti e postimpressionisti dai musei sovietici, June 14–October 15, 1983, no. 2, ill.
1986a Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
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).
2005–06 New York and traveling
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).
2015 Winterthur
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.
2016–17 Paris
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
Shchukin 1913
Catalogue of Paintings in the Sergei Shchukin Collection. Moscow, 1913, no. 209.
Tugendhold 1914
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Collection Shchukin." Apollon, no. 1-2 (January-February 1914), nos. 1 and 2.
Pertsov 1922
Pertsov, Petr. Collection de la peinture française de Shchukin. Moscow: Sabashnikovykh, 1922, p. 115, no. 209.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. after p. 140.
Ternovietz 1925
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 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 60.
Museum of Modern Western Art 1928
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 545.
Réau 1929
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 182, ill. vol. II, as Fleurs dans un vase.
Cahiers d'Art 1950
"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 1957
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.
Hermitage 1958
The State Hermitage, Department of Western European Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Leningrad and Moscow, 1958, p. 187, no. 394, ill.
Levinson-Lessing 1958
Levinson-Lessing, Vladimir F. Occidental Art at the Hermitage Museum. Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1958, p. 444, no. 8954.
Sterling 1958
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pp. 113–14, pl. 90.
Boudaille 1961
Boudaille, Georges. Le Musée de l'Ermitage: Peintures, dessins. Paris: Musée de l'Ermitage, 1961, pl. 38.
Descargues 1961
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Champa 1965
Champa, Kermit. "Paris: From Russia with Love." Arts Magazine (September–October 1965), p. 56, ill.
Izergina 1968
Izergina, Antonina Nikolaevna. The Hermitage, Leningrad: French 19th Century Masters. Prague: Artia, 1968, pl. 49.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 50; p. 84, no. 29.
Barskaya 1975b
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 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 127-128, pl. 7.
Bessonova and Williams 1986
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 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 143, ill. in color.
Düchting 1989
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 6, ill.
Kostenevich 1989
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 452, fig. 51.
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. 315, ill. vol. 2, as Fleurs dans un vase.

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Record last updated December 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 April 24, 2024).