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 655-TA
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
1878–80
Alternate title: Frühstück im Freien
Rewald (373): 1878–80; Venturi revised: 1874–77; Cézanne fils: 1875–80; Venturi (377): 1877–82; Rivière: 1878; Vollard: 1878
Oil on canvas
13 3/8 x 15 3/8 in. (34 x 39 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3691, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe autour d'une table des gens reposant ou s'enlaçant, 34 x 39 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 128, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1875–80
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 44, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, lent by Pellerin.
Published References
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498 (mentioned).
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 68, as Frühstück im Freien, dated 1878.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 133, as Frühstück im Freien, 1878.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, listed.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 37, as Frühstück im Freien, 1878.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 377, ill. vol. II, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 78, p. 202, ill. (analysis p. 339).
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 111–12, fig. 53.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 43 p. 73.
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. 373, ill. vol. 2, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Notes
Auguste Clot published a color lithograph after this work that was printed by his son André in 1914. See Cherpin, L'Oeuvre gravé de Cézanne, Marseille, 1972, no. 9. Note the figure in the foreground, who is in the same pose as the bather of Grandes baigneuses, 1906 (981).
Venturi (1936) described the colors in the painting as: "Feuillage en vert nuancé, nappe d'un blanc-bleu. Personnages habillés de différents bleus. Femme vue de dos habillée de jaune."
Auguste Clot, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, after Cézanne. Lithograph
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Record last updated July 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1878–80 (FWN 655-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=369 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
