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Catalogue entry

© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
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

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Private collection, Paris;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 2, 1899, no. 4
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Maurice Fabre, Béziers (Feb. 28, 1900)
Gustave Fayet, Paris and Béziers (January 22, 1902)
Galerie E. Druet, Paris
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (June 11, 1912);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1910–11 London
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
Piper & Co. 1912
Paul Cèzanne - Mappe. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, pl. 7, as Weiblicher Akt vor dem Spiegel, also titled "Bei der Toilette".
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 133.
Fahraeus 1919
Fahraeus, Klas. "Paul Cézanne." Ord och Bild 4 (1919), p. 403, ill., as Toaletten.
Popp 1919
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 1922
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 203, listed.
Fry 1926
Fry, Roger. "Le développement de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 12 (December 1926), ill. p. 416, as Petite ébauche.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 60, as Toilette.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 85, fig. 50, pl. XXXVII.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXIX.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 137, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 254, ill. vol. II, as La Toilette.
Rewald 1936c
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 and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 83, p. 206, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. V, listed p. 176.
Nicolson 1951
Nicolson, Bendict. "Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 574 (January 1951), p. 13, note 16.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 85, pl. XXXVII fig. 50, as The Toilet.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 38, fig. 40.
Lhote 1958
Lhote, André. Traités du paysage et de la figure. Paris: B. Grasset, 1958, fig. 21 (Traité de la figure).
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 36.
Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 39, p. 126, as La Toilette.
Ballas 1981
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 and Reff 1989
Shoemaker, Innis, and Theodore Reff. Paul Cézanne: Two Sketchbooks. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Exhibition catalogue, p. 194, ill.
Krumrine 1989b
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 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. 594, ill. vol. 2, as La Toilette.
Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 288, no. 97, ill., as La Toilette, c. 1878.
Bacou 2008
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 2008
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 53, ill.
Machotka 2008
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 2010
Robins, Anna Gruetzner. "'Manet and the Post-Impressionists': a checklist of the exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1293 (December 2010), p. 784.
Guibourgé et al 2015
Guibourgé, Stéphane, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot. Gustave Fayet, L'oeil souverain. Paris: Editions du regard, 2015, pp. 113, 209 n111.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
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.

La Toilette, 1885–90 (FWN 665). Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
La Toilette, 1885–90 (FWN 665). Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
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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Record last updated February 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 March 28, 2024).