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 671
Arlequin
1888–90
Alternate titles: Harlequin; L'Arlequin; Mardi gras
Rewald (620): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1888; Venturi (554): 1888–90; Rivière: 1888
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (100 x 65 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3369, peinture à l'huile représentant un arlequin tenant à la main droite un bouquet de violettes et sous le bras une batte, 105 x 66 cm (250 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 515, as L'Arlequin, lent by Pellerin, Paris; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 287, pl. 140.
Les Archives internationale de la danse, 6 rue Vital, Paris, Danse dans la peinture et la sculpture, June 1933, as Arlequin.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 73, as Arlequin, lent by Pellerin.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition Cézanne (1839-1906), organisée à l'occasion de son centenaire au profit de l’œuvre de l'allaitement maternel, February 21–April 1, 1939, no. 24, ill., as Arlequin, 1890, lent by J.-V. Pell.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 124, ill. shown in Paris and Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 71, ill., as Arlequin.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 18, ill., as Arlequin.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 66, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 81, ill.
Published References
Levy, Simon. "Lettre sur Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 288, as L'Arlequin.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 144.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 216, listed, ill. opp. p. 90, as Arlequin, dated 1888.
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, p. 79, ill.
Goulinat, J.-G. "Technique picturale: l'évolution du métier de Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 5 (March 1, 1925), p. 24, ill., as Arlequin.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 105, as Mardi gras, c.1888.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 3], as Arlequin.
Boll, Marcel and André Boll. L'Art contemporain, sa raison d'être ses manifestations. Paris: Delagrave, 1931, p. 123, ill.
Cassou, Jean. "Expositions." Marianne: grand hebdomadaire littéraire illustré (Paris) (June 7, 1933), p. 15, ill., as L'Arlequin.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 119, ill.
Courthion, Pierre. "La danse dans la peinture et la sculpture." Les Archives internationales de la danse (Paris) 3 (July 15, 1933), p. 111, as Arlequin.
Courthion, Pierre. "Peintres et sculpteurs de la danse." Les Archives internationales de la danse (Paris) 5 (December 15, 1933), ill. p. 182, as Arlequin.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 554, ill. vol. II, as Arlequin.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as Arlequin.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 105, ill. p. 236 (analysis p. 354).
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 111, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 32, fig. 28.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 60, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 137.
National Gallery of Art Annual Report (1986), p. 35, listed, p. 125, ill.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 313–16, fig. 16 and colorpl. p. 288.
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. 620, ill. vol. 2 and p. 31, ill. col. vol. 1, as Arlequin.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 95, fig. 2.46, as Arlequin.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 236, ill.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 90, fig. 5 (detail).
Grossvogel, Jill Elyse. "Towards a Rconstruction of the Schuffenecker Collection." In Claude-Emile Schuffenecker: catalogue raisonné: supplement, idem. Chicago: [s.n.], 2008, listed p. 37, as Harlequin.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 255; vol. 2, p. 169, as Arlequin.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 187, pl. 80.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 233 fig. 4.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 166, fig. 48.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, N,J.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 54.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 207, ill., as Arlequin.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 103.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Arlequin, 1888–90 (FWN 671)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=602 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
