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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Palais Galliera, Paris, May 30 1967, no. 28, ill.
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Exhibition History
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1986.1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 2, ill.1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
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, 2000.2015 Kanagawa
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, Cézanne, Pioneer of Modern Art, April 4–September 27, 2015, no. 1, ill.2020 Paris
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 195, as Chinois adorant le soleil.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 13, ill. vol. II, as Chinois adorant le soleil.Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 19, 133.Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, listed p. 154.Reff 1960d
Reff, Theodore. "Reproductions and Books in Cézanne's Studio." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), note 64 p. 308.Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 26, pl. 2.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. 20. ill. vol. 2, as Scène religieuse .Machotka 2008
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 2013
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 April 26, 2024).
