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 737
Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche
c.1877
Alternate titles: Naturaleza muerta con jarrón, taza y manzanas; Nature morte; Nature morte avec pot, tasse et pommes; Pot, cup, and fruit on white cloth; Poterie, tasse et fruits; Still life; Still Life with Jar, Cup and Apples; Stillleben mit Gefäß, Tasse und Äpfeln
Rewald (322): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (213): c.1877; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
23 13/16 x 29 in. (60.6 x 73.7 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 518, Annotated: 1877
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The H.O. Havemeyer Collection, March 10–November 2, 1930, no. 7.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 43, as Still life, lent by Metropolitan.
A. Seligman-Helft Galleries, New York, French Still-Life from Chardin to Cézanne, October 29–November 22, 1947, no. 5, lent by Metropolitan Museum.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Springtime of Impressionism, April 3–May 2, 1948, no. 3.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, August 26–September 10, 1949.
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, [Masterpiece Series], 1951.
French Embassy, New York, Gastronomy in the Fine Arts, November 29, 1951–January 30, 1952, no. 15.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 20, ill. lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Still Life Painting since 1470, September 1956, no. 11. Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, October 1956.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne, June 23–November 12, 2006, no. 50, ill., as Nature morte avec pot, tasse et pommes.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Grandes maestros de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York: De El Greco a Cézanne, December 1, 2006–March 4, 2007, no. 42, ill., as Naturaleza muerta con jarrón, taza y manzanas.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 1–October 7, 2007, listed pp. 204-205, ill., as Stillleben mit Gefäß, Tasse und Äpfeln.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 58, ill., p. 121, as Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche, lent by Metropolitan Museum.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 74, ill.
Published References
Geffroy Gustave. "L'Impressioinnisme." La Revue encyclopédique 73 (December 15, 1893), p. 1218, ill., as Nature morte.
Saunier, Charles. Anthologie de la peinture française, La Peinture du XIXe siècle. Paris: Bibliothèque Larousse, 1923, p. 183, ill.
"Havemeyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum." The Art News 28 (March 15, 1930), p. 49, ill. p. 49, as Still life.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. "The Havemeyer Pictures." The Arts 16, no. 7 (March 1930), p. 483, ill.
Wehle, Harry B. "The Exhibition of the H.O. Havemeyer Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (March 1930), p. 58, ill.
"Au Metropolitan Museum: La collection Havemeyer." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 4 (April 20, 1930), p. 8 (listed), as Nature morte.
H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Object of Art. Portland, Me.: [privately published], 1931, pp. 58– 59, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 213, ill. vol. II, as Poterie, tasse et fruits.
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 200, ill.
H. O. Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958, p. 13, no. 65 (listed).
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 98–99, ill.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, p. 614, ill.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 180–81, ill.
Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 178.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 55, ill. in color.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 210, fig. 187.
Jean, Raymond. "L'objet Sainte-Victoire." In Sainte-Victoire Cezanne 1990. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, figs. 187 and 188 (upside down).
Wold, Gretchen. "Appendix." In Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, no. 72, ill.
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. 322, ill. vol. 2, as Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 135; vol. 2, p. 99, as Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche.
Colrat, Jean. "Un motif." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 121, ill., as Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche.
Schubert, Karsten. "Cézanne and Paris." The Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1309 (April 2012), fig. 69, as Pot, cup, and fruit on white cloth.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 200, pl. 89.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 130, fig. 16, as Still Life with Jar, Cup and Apples.
Kalter-Wasserman, Sasha. "The Power to Astonish in Paul Cézanne's Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug." In Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism at the Guggenheim, Fontanella, Megan. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publication, 2018, p. 55, fig. 4.3, as Still Life with Jar, Cup and Apples.
Kalter-Wasserman, Sasha. "Le pouvoir d'étonner: Fiasque, verre et poterie de Paul Cézanne." In Chefs-d'oeuvre du Guggenheim: de Manet à Picasso, la collection Thannhauser. Paris: Culturespace, Edition Hazan, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 25, as Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 3.
Notes
The wooden chest appears in an earlier work (Nature morte au médaillon de Solari, c.1872 (0000)) and the green banded cup with flowers is the same as in Tasse, verre et fruits, c.1877 (736).
Record last updated July 9, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Poterie, tasse et fruits sur une nappe blanche, c.1877 (FWN 737)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=318 (accessed on February 8, 2025).