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 742
Le Plat de pommes
c.1877 (possibly later)
Alternate titles: Apples; Dish of Apples; Nature morte; Plat de pommes; Schale mit Äpfeln; Still Life with Apples; Stilleben
Rewald (348): 1877 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: c.1877; Venturi (207): 1873–77; Rivière: 1883; Ratcliffe: possibly 1876
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (45.5 x 55 cm)
Signed lower right in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
6, rue Le Peletier, Paris, Troisième exposition de peinture, opening April 4, 1877, no. 17, 18 or 19, as Nature morte.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 21, as Nature morte, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 45, (dated 1877), as Apples.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Exposition de natures mortes par Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, etc., April 21–May 1908, no. 14, (dated 1877), as Le Plat de pommes.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XI. Jahrgang, Winter 1908/1909, II. Ausstellung, October 15–November 8, 1908, no. 19, as Schale mit Äpfeln.
Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, 18, rue de la Ville-l'Evêque, Paris, L'Art français au service de la science française, April 25–May 15, 1923, no. 164, as Le Plat de pommes, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 11, as Le Plat de pommes, lent by Durand-Ruel.
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 16, ill., as Stilleben, lent by Durand-Ruel?
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Quelques oeuvres importantes de Manet à van Gogh, February–March 1932, no. 4, ill., as Le Plat de pommes, 1877.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Quelques œuvres importantes de Corot à Van Gogh, May 11–June 16, 1934, no. 4, as Le Plat de pommes.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, The four Great Impressionists: Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Manet, March 27–April 13, 1940, no. 4, ill.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 2, ill. lent by anon.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Still Life: Manet to Picasso, March 8–31, 1944, no. 4, ill., as Le Plat de pommes.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 19, lent by Pierre Durand-Ruel.
Tate Gallery, London, The Annenberg Collection, September 2–October 8, 1969, no. 5, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, May 21–September 17, 1989, n.n., pp. 74–75, ill., as Dish of Apples, 1875-80. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, May 6–August 5, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, August 16–November 15, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 4–October 13, 1991.
Published References
Royère, Jean. "Paul Cézanne, Erinnerungen." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 486, as Stilleben.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 211, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 69.
Thiébault-Sisson, François. "L'exposition Cézanne." Le Temps (Paris) (June 8, 1926), p. 4, as Plat de pommes.
Berthelot, Pierre. "Les expositions." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 3 (March 25, 1932), ill. p. 23, as Le Plat de pommes.
Mounereau, Guy. "De Corot à van Gogh." L'Echo de Paris, June 11, 1934, p. 4, as Nature morte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 207, ill. vol. II, as Le Plat de pommes.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Cézanne: Intimate Exhibition." Art News 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), ill.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), pp. 50, 55-56, fig. 15 p. 55; p. 84, no. 31.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 15.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 16.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque, vol. 4. Paris: Denoël, 1981, p. 157, ill. hanging in Durand-Ruel dining room (photograph erroneously dated 1896).
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 145, fig. 78, as Still Life with Apples.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 132, ill. in color.
Coignard, Jérôme. "Le Salon de peinture de Mr. and Mrs. Annenberg." Beaux-arts magazine (Paris) 92 (July - August 1991), p. 64, ill., as Plat de pommes.
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. 348, ill. vol. 2, as Le Plat de pommes.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 134; vol. 2, p. 98, as Le Plat de pommes.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. 27, ill.
"Kollektion Lovis Corinth: Ausstellung 'Stilleben': 15. Oktober bis 10. November 1908." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910 vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 59, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Morality, Materiality, Apples." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 179, fig. 12, as Dish of Apples.
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. 129, fig. 15, as Dish of Apples.
Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia. "Im Banne des Impressionismus – Victor Chocquet und Oskar Reinhart." 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. 22, pl. 5.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, figs. 77, 174 pp. 95, 183.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 26, ill., as Nature morte.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 10.
Notes
This still life was painted at the Jas de Bouffan. A section of the verso of the paravent Paravent avec scènes champêtres et ornements, c.1859 (560), once thought to be by the artist, is seen in the background, and the sugar pot, first painted into a early stil life Sucrier, poires et tasse bleue, 1865–66 (706), sits on the table.
Verso of the paravent (no. 560). Cézanne painted into the background of this still life a lower portion of the fourth panel from the left
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Plat de pommes, c.1877 (possibly later) (FWN 742)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=344 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
