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Catalogue entry

FWN 659-TA
Les Moissonneurs
1875–78
Alternate titles: Harvesters; La Sieste
Rewald (454): 1880 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (1517): 1875–78
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 16 1/8 in. (26 x 41 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
John Osborne Sumner, Boston (July 16, 1896);
Richard E. Sumner, Boston
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York
Guerlain, Paris
Robert Schmit, Paris
Private collection, Switzerland
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Sumner buys.
1913 New York
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 1069, as Harvesters, lent by Prof. John O. Sumner. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
1913 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Armory Show, March 24–April 16, 1913, no. 48.
1913 Boston
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 23.
1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 4, (dated 1875–78), as Les Moissonneurs, lent by Sumner Estate.
1939i New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Small Masterpieces of Late 19th Century French Art, December 2–31, 1939, no. 7.
1947 Akron
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, French paintings of the 19th century, October 5–26, 1947.
1949 Palm Beach
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, The Post-Impressionists and Their Followers, February 4–27, 1949, no. 3, (dated c.1890), as La Sieste, lent by Wildenstein.
1954 Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe, 1500–1900, October 14–December 12, 1954, no. 81, ill.
1959 Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France, La Découverte de la lumière des primitifs aux impressionnistes, May 20–July 31, 1959, no. 233, pl. 64.
1963e New York
Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6–28, 1963, no. 1069, pl. 185, cataloged but not shown. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, February 17–March 31, 1963.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1517, ill. vol. II, as Les Moissonneurs.
Phillips Collection 1952
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 67, as Harvesters.
Grafly 1954
Grafly, Dorothy. "On the Subject of Man." American Artist 18, no. 10 (December 1954), p. 41, ill. p. 40.
Brown 1963
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229, no. 1069.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 26, 173, 192, fig. 8.
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. 454, ill. vol. 2, as Les Moissonneurs.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 204, fig. 5.17, as Les Moissonneurs, Private collection, Switzerland.

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Record last updated January 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Les Moissonneurs, 1875–78 (FWN 659-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=445 (accessed on April 19, 2024).