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 782
Compotier, pommes et miche de pain
1879–80
Alternate titles: Compotier et pommes; Nature more aux fruits; Still Life with Fruit Dish, Apples and Bread; Stillleben mit Obstschale, Äpfeln und Brot
Rewald (420): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (344): 1879–82; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 29 5/16 in. (55 x 74.5 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 35, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1878
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Bern, December 16, 1939–May 14, 1940, no. 31.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart. Alte Meister und Französische Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, December 1940–March 1941, no. 9.
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Die Privatsammlung Oskar Reinhart, August 21, 1955, no. 8, pl. XXXIII, as Compotier et pommes.
Published References
Courthion, Pierre. "L'art français dans les collections privées en Suisse: La collection Oscar Reinhart." l'Amour de l'Art 7, no. 1 (January 1926), ill. p. 15.
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Sammlung Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur." Kunst und Künstler 25, no. 1 (1927), p. 8.
Waldemar-George. "La Collection Oskar Reinhart." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, nos. 26–27 (1932), ill. between pp. 296 and 297.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 344, ill. vol. II, as Compotier et pommes.
Berger, René. Découverte de la peinture. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1958, fig. 92, p. 100, as Compotier et pommes.
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1969, no. 4, colorplate 1.
Koella, Rudolf. Collection Oskar Reinhart. Paris: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975, pp. 252, 322–23, pl. 118.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 17, ill.
Frehner Matthias and Christina. Zurich: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, p. 106, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 31.
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. 420, ill. vol. 2, as Compotier, pommes et miche de pain.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Die Sprache der Dinge. Cézannes Stilleben." In Cézanne—Picasso—Braque. Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia et al. Sammlung Oskar Reinhart 'Am Römerholz' Winterthur. Basel: Schwabe & Co., AG, 2003, no. 146, pp. 502-504, ill., as Stillleben mit Obstschale, Äpfeln und Brot.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 241, ill. in b/w.
Shiff, Richard. "Risible Cézanne." In The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 135, fig. 6, as Compotier, pommes et miche de pain, dated 1879–80.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 87, as Compotier, pommes et miche de pain.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 108, fig. 7, as Still Life with Fruit Dish, Apples and Bread.
Reinhard-Felice, Mariantonia. "Im Banne des Impressionismus – Victor Chocquet und Oskar Reinhart." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, pl. 6.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 24, ill., as Nature more aux fruits.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 34.
Record last updated March 7, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Compotier, pommes et miche de pain, 1879–80 (FWN 782)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=413 (accessed on January 18, 2025).
