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 748
Verre et poires
1879–80
Alternate titles: Glass and Pears; Nature morte au verre de vin; Poires et verre de vin; Still-life; Stilleben mit Glas und Birnen; Stilleben, Früchte mit Glas und Porzellanschale
Rewald (422): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (351): 1879–82
Oil on canvas
7 1/16 x 15 in. (18 x 38 cm)
Private collection, New York
Provenance
Private collection, Europe (2002);
Private Collection, New York
Exhibition History
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 126, as Stilleben, Früchte mit Glas und Porzellanschale, lent by Leonhard Tietz, Cologne.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Valentine Gallery, New York, Since Cézanne, December 28, 1931–January 16, 1932, no. 1.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Essai d'une collection de tableaux modernes, June 1–13, 1932, no. 5, ill.
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 6, as Nature morte au verre de vin.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 2, as Nature morte au verre de vin, c. 1882.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 25, lent by Jos. Brochier, Lyon.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 21, lent by Brochier, Lyon.
Wildenstein, New York, The Object as Subject: Still Life Paintings from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, April 4–May 3, 1975, no. 15, as Glass and Pears.
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, De Cézanne à Picasso dans les collections romandes, June 15–October 20, 1985, no. 2, ill.
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1912, Mission Moderne: Die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes, August 31–December 30, 2012, no. 16, ill., pp. 336–37, as Stilleben mit Glas und Birnen.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 22.
Whitmer, T. Carl. "A Composer Looks at Paintings." Art News (December 1931), p. 13, ill.
Whitmer, T. Carl. "A Composer Looks at Painting." Creative Art 10 (February 1932), p. 117, ill.
Fry, Roger. "An Exhibition of French Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 376 (July 1934), p. 30, as Still-life.
Zervos, Christian. "Renoir, Cézanne, leurs contemporains et la jeune peintre anglaise." Cahiers d'Art, nos. 5–8 (1934), p. 126, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 351, ill. vol. II, as Verre et poires.
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. 422, ill. vol. 2, as Verre et poires.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 126, p. 554.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 32, ill., as Poires et verre de vin, installation photograph from 1931 exhibition, p. 124.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 110, fig. 2, as Glass and Pears.
Record last updated October 27, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Verre et poires, 1879–80 (FWN 748)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=415 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
