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 577
Scène religieuse
1860–62
Alternate title: Chinois adorant le soleil
Rewald (20): 1860–62; Venturi revised: c.1860; Venturi (13): 1860–62; Rivière: 1859
Oil on canvas
10 13/16 x 8 3/4 in. (27.5 x 22.2 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 2, ill. lent by private collection. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 2, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 1, ill., as Scène religieuse, lent by Private collection, Japan. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 1, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 13, ill. lent by Pola Museum of Art, Hakone.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, as Chinois adorant le soleil.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 13, ill. vol. II, as Chinois adorant le soleil.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.
Reff, Theodore. "Reproductions and Books in Cézanne's Studio." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), note 64 p. 308.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 26, pl. 2.
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. 20. ill. vol. 2, as Scène religieuse .
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 15; vol. 2, p. 35, as Scène religieuse , Private collection.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 247, pl. 114.
Notes
There have been several interpretations of the work. Venturi (1936) suggested that an engraving by Pauquet, Les Chinois et leurs produits (Musée des Familles, 1855–56, p. 45), may have been the inspiration for this this work. Chappuis disagreed on the grounds that the subject and composition of the Pauquet work has no connection with Cézanne's. Reff (1960) felt that the work was a scene of religious ecstasy.
Related to this work are sketches of the heads and nimbus from the Carnet de Jeunesse, Musée d'Orsay (FWN3014-09a and 3014-09b).
Record last updated October 27, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Scène religieuse, 1860–62 (FWN 577)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=36 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
