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 781
Compotier, assiette et pommes
1879–80
Alternate titles: Assiette et compotier; Assiette et compotier de fruits; Fruits; Nature morte; Nature morte au compotier; Nature morte aux pommes dans une coupe et sur un plat; Nature morte, assiette et compotier; Still Life with Compotier; Stillleben mit Äpfeln in Schale
Rewald (419): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (342): 1879–82; Gowing: 1879
Oil on canvas
17 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (43.5 x 54 cm)
Chenue label on verso bears name "Graphton Gallery"
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des Beaux-Arts, Salle Berlioz, Béziers, France, Catalogue Peintures, Pastels, Aquarelles, April–May 1901, no. 17, as Fruits, lent by Fayet.
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 9, as Nature morte, tentative identification, lent by Alphonse Kann.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Franske Kunst, July–October 1945, no. 49.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, French and Danish Paintings, 1958, no. 15.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 41, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Nature morte, assiette et compotier, lent by Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 25–September 1, 1980.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 20, ill., pp. 72–73 (dated 1879–82).
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Gloria Victis!: vainqueurs et vaincus dans l'art français: 1848-1910, May 29–October 15, 2000, no. 14, as Nature morte, assiette et compotier.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 118, 119, pl. 48, as Still Life with Compotier, lent by Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Kunst in Paris um 1900 - Von Cézanne bis Picasso, October 13, 2007–February 24, 2008, no. 139, ill., as Stillleben mit Äpfeln in Schale, c. 1879-82.
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, Modernism: Reinventing Painting, 1908–41, March 30–August 26, 2012, no. 4, ill., p. 112, fig. 78.
Published References
Madsen, Karl. Catalogue of Wilhelm Hansens Samling. Copenhagen: Malerisamlingen Ordrupgaard, 1918, no. 92, ill.
Gold, Alfred. "Kunst und Sammler in Dänemark und Skandinavien." Der Cicerone 12, no. 24 (1920), p. 872.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 342, ill. vol. II, as Assiette et compotier.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 67, listed.
Catalogue: French and Danish Paintings. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1958, no. 867, ill.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 134.
Asmussen, Marianne. Wilhelm Hansen's Original French Collection at Ordrupgaard. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993, no. 92, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 234, fig. 1.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 32.
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. 419, ill. vol. 2, as Compotier, assiette et pommes.
Bacou, Roseline. "Gustave Fayet Collectionneur." Cahiers de l'Association française pour la protection des archives privées II (2008), pp. 54 et 62, as Nature morte au compotier.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 785.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 197, pl. 87.
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, pp. 104, 207n59.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 267, fig. 92.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 267, fig. 92.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 102.
Anne-Brigitte Fonsmark. "La collection d'art français de Wilhelm Hansen à Ordrupgaard." In Trésors Impressionnistes, La collection Ordrupgaard. Martigny, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, p. 14, ill., as Nature morte aux pommes dans une coupe et sur un plat.
Record last updated September 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Compotier, assiette et pommes, 1879–80 (FWN 781)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=412 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
