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 741
Compotier et assiette de biscuits
c.1877
Alternate titles: Biscuits i pomes; Compote and Plate of Biscuits; Compotier and Plate of Biscuits; Compotier de fruits et biscuits; Fruit Bowl and Plate of Biscuits; Les biscuits; Nature morte; Nature morte aux biscuits; Still Life; Stilleben
Rewald (325): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: 1877; Venturi (209): c.1877; Rivière: 1883; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 24 13/16 in. (53 x 63 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 215, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
Private collection
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 314, tentative identification, based on description in Gil Blas.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition d'oeuvres des XIXe et XX siècles, June 19–August 1, 1925, no. 11, as Nature morte aux biscuits.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 8.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 4, as Compotier de fruits et biscuits, 1884, lent by Josse.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 34, pl. XXXIV, p. 121 (dated c. 1874), as Nature morte aux biscuits, lent by J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune.
Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 248, as Nature morte aux biscuits, lent by Josse Bernheim-Jeune.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 17, as Les biscuits, lent by Josse Bernheim-Jeune.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Six Masters of Post-Impressionism, April 8–May 8, 1948, no. 1, ill., as Compotier et assiette de biscuits, lent by Vogel.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 26, ill. lent by Vogel. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1959, no. 18, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 14, ill. lent by Vogel.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition, 1961, no. 20, lent by Edwin C. Vogel.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Collects: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from Private Collections, July 3–September 2, 1968, no. 38, as Compote and Plate of Biscuits, lent by Edwin C. Vogel.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 48, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 9, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 77, ill., as Compotier et assiette de biscuits, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 116, 117, pl. 46, as Compotier and Plate of Biscuits, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 81, p. 254, as Compotier et assiette de biscuits, lent by Private collection.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne und sein Kreis: Paul Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst: vergleichende Betrachtungen der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik vol. 1. Stuttgart: Jul. Hoffmann, 1904, pl. 64 (vol. 3), as Stilleben.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne and his Circle: Paul Cézanne." In Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of Aesthetics. vol. I, translated by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. London: Heinemann, 1908, ill. between pp. 268, 269, as Still Life.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXXIII.
Sacs, Joan. "Les natures-mortes den Pau Cézanne." Revista nova (Barcelona) Year I, no. 22 (September 3, 1914), ill. p. 11, as Biscuits i pomes, Private collection.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 159.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 25.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 59, pl. (color) p. 58, as Nature morte.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 191.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 211, listed.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 499, as Stilleben.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 95, pl. (color) p. 94, as Nature morte.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 81, as Stilleben, 1885.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LX.
Guenne, Jacques. "Chronique artistique: Une rétrospective Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 149 (June 1931), ill. p. 254.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 91, ill.
Fry, Roger. "An Exhibition of French Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 376 (July 1934), p. 30, as Compotier de fruits et biscuits.
Zervos, Christian. "Renoir, Cézanne, leurs contemporains et la jeune peintre anglaise." Cahiers d'Art, nos. 5–8 (1934), p. 126, ill.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 3, Nature-mortes, pl. 4.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 209, ill. vol. II, as Compotier et assiette de biscuits.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 51, listed.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 95, ill.
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 15 (with erroneous Venturi no.), p. 71.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 188.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 29.
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. 325, ill. vol. 2, as Compotier et assiette de biscuits.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 16, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 137; vol. 2, p. 100, as Compotier et assiette de biscuits.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 254, pl. 81, as Compotier and Plate of Biscuits.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 63, ill., p. 254, pl. 81, as Compotier and Plate of Biscuits.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 36, ill., as Compotier et assiette de biscuits.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 191, pl. 82.
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. 4.4, as Fruit Bowl and Plate of Biscuits.
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. 26, as Compotier et assiette de biscuits.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 10bis, ill., as Compotier de fruits et biscuits (installation photographs from 1925 exhibition, p. 115, 1931, p. 122, as well as interior of Bernheim-Jeune residence, p. 9, and Josse's, pp. 10, 11, 13).
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 71.
Smith, Paul. "Cezanne's Non-Constructive Line." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Record last updated March 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Compotier et assiette de biscuits, c.1877 (FWN 741)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=321 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
