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 771
Boîte à lait et pommes
1879–80
Alternate titles: Fruchtestilleben mit blaugrauem Hintergrund; Milk Can and Apples; Nature morte; Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche; Still Life with Milk Can and Apples; Stilleben, Äpfel
Rewald (426): 1879–80; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (338): 1879–82; Gowing: 1877 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
19 11/16 x 24 in. (50 x 61 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 1, as Stilleben, Äpfel, lent by Durand-Ruel, presumably for sale.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 31, as Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz, Dresden-Zürich; Französische Impressionisten aus verschiedenem Besitz, January 14–February 14, 1932, no. 43, as Pommes et poires, serviette et cruche.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Französische Maler des XIX. Jahrhunderts, May 14–August 6, 1933, no. 85, as Fruchtestilleben mit blaugrauem Hintergrund, c. 1885, [lent by Schmitz].
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris, La Collection Oskar Schmitz, 1936, no. 9, ill.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 13, ill. lent by Paley.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 20, (dated 1906), as Nature morte, lent by anon.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Wildenstein Jubilee Loan Exhibition, 1901–1951: Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections, November 8–December 15, 1951, no. 49, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The William S. Paley Collection, February 2–May 7, 1992, no. 12, ill.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 118, 119, pl. 49, as Still Life with Milk Can and Apples, lent by MoMA, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 71, ill., p. 170, as Boîte à lait et pommes, lent by MoMA, NY.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Camille Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, February 18–June 12, 2022, no. 68, ill., as Milk Can and Apples, 1879.
Published References
Scheffler, Karl. "Die Sammlung Oskar Schmitz in Dresden." Kunst und Künstler 19, no. 5 (1921), p. 188.
Dormoy, Marie. "La collection Schmitz à Dresde." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 10 (October 1926), p. 342, as Nature morte.
Waldmann, Emil. Paul Cézanne: Acht farbige Gemälde. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1930, pl. 6.
Hazama, Mosuke, Genichiri Adachi, and Kaziamasa Nakogawa, eds. Recueil important des oeuvres de Paul Cézanne. Vol. 1: Paysages, edited by Hazama. Vol. 2: Portraits et Nus., edited by Adachi. Vol. 3: Nature-mortes., edited by Nakogawa. Tokyo: Atorie-sha, 1935, vol. 3, Nature-mortes, pl. 7.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 338, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
"San Francisco Sees Cézanne's 'Little Sensation' in Great Exhibition." Art Digest 9, no. 20 (September 1, 1937), p. 6, ill.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 143, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 130.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 11, 26, 337, pl. I.
Rubin, William, and Matthew Armstrong. The William S. Paley Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992. Exhibition catalogue, p. 149, fig. 8.
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. 426, ill. vol. 2, as Boîte à lait et pommes.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 130, ill.
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 261, fig. 15.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne Crosses the Atlantic: Vollard and American Collections." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 80, fig. 1.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 170, ill., as Boîte à lait et pommes.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 345, ill.
Record last updated November 4, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Boîte à lait et pommes, 1879–80 (FWN 771)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=419 (accessed on April 29, 2025).
