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Catalogue entry

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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (November 1902);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris
Sam Salz, New York;
Janet Traeger Salz, New York (1988)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895.
1936c Paris
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 1895
Natanson, Thadée. "Paul Cézanne." La Revue Blanche 9, no. 50 (December 1, 1895), p. 498 (mentioned).
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pls. 32 and 47.
Vollard 1921
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Munich: Kurt Wolfe Verlag, 1921, ill. opp. p. 68, as Frühstück im Freien, dated 1878.
Meier-Graefe 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 206, listed.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 37, as Frühstück im Freien, 1878.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 377, ill. vol. II, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 37, p. 56.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 78, p. 202, ill. (analysis p. 339).
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 67, listed p. 155.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 111–12, fig. 53.
Krumrine 1989b
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 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. 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."

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1878–80 (FWN 655-TA). Auguste Clot, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, after Cézanne. Lithograph
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 March 29, 2024).