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)
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FWN 665
La Toilette
1885–90
Alternate titles: La toilette, d'après Le lever de Delacroix; Petite ébauche; The Toilet; The Toilette; Toaletten; Toilette; Weiblicher Akt vor dem Spiegel
Rewald (594): 1885–90; Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (254): c.1878; Rivière: 1877; Other: Marschutz: c.1890(?)
Oil on canvas
13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (33.7 x 25.7 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 4125, femme nue à la toilette; peinture à l'huile, en face de la femme une petite négresse lui tend une table à toilette; à gauche une draperie rouge, 33 x 25 cm (130 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 186, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885–90
Provenance
Private collection, Paris;
Exhibition History
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 14, as La Toilette, probably lent by Galeries Druet.
Published References
Paul Cèzanne - Mappe. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, pl. 7, as Weiblicher Akt vor dem Spiegel, also titled "Bei der Toilette".
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 133.
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 185, as Toilette.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 163.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 203, listed.
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 416, as Petite ébauche.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 60, as Toilette.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 85, fig. 50, pl. XXXVII.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXIX.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 254, ill. vol. II, as La Toilette.
Rewald, John. "Sources d'inspiration de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 90 p. 191, as La Toilette, c. 1880 (with Delacroix' La Toilette, fig. 89).
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 83, p. 206, ill.
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 85, pl. XXXVII fig. 50, as The Toilet.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, fig. 40.
Lhote, André. Traités du paysage et de la figure. Paris: B. Grasset, 1958, fig. 21 (Traité de la figure).
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 36.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 39, p. 126, as La Toilette.
Ballas, Guila. "Paul Cézanne et la revue 'L'Artiste.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 98, periode 6 (December 1981), pp. 224 and 231, fig. 8 p. 227, as La toilette, d'après Le lever de Delacroix, 1878.
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, ill.
Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers." In Paul Cézanne: The Bathers. Basel: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, ill. 54 p. 90.
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. 594, ill. vol. 2, as La Toilette.
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 288, no. 97, ill., as La Toilette, c. 1878.
Bacou, Roseline. "Gustave Fayet Collectionneur." Cahiers de l'Association française pour la protection des archives privées II (2008), p. 62, as La Toilette.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 53, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 205; vol. 2, p. 144, as La Toilette.
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 784.
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, pp. 113, 209 n111.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 19, pp. 127–33, as The Toilette (catalogue notes by M. Lucy).
Notes
Inspired by Delacroix's painting Le lever which Cezanne probably knew from a reproduction in L'Artiste from 1851.
Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
Photo: © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Toilette, 1885–90 (FWN 665)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=577 (accessed on October 6, 2024).
