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 846
Nature morte à la cruche
c.1893
Alternate titles: Nature morte; Still Life with Water Jug
Rewald (738): c.1893; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (749): 1895–1900; Cooper: probably c.1893; Gowing: c.1891 (Tate) and c.1892 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 28 in. (53 x 71 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3658, huile; esquisse de nature morte, pain, fruits, etc., 53 x 71 cm (75 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3347, Esquisse nature morte avec cruchon, 54 x 71 cm
Vollard W stockbook: no. 5565, Nature morte, 52 x 71 cm (225,000 Fr)
Vollard archives: photo no. 37, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1886
Provenance
Exhibition History
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, hors catalogue, shown only in London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, June–September 1983, no. 20, ill., as Nature morte à la cruche, lent by Tate Gallery.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 61, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 15, ill., as Nature morte à la cruche.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 32, ill., as Still Life with Water Jug.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Picasso, Cézanne, May 25–September 27, 2009, no. 77, ill., as Nature morte à la cruche, c. 1892-1893.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 109, ill., as Nature morte à la cruche.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 102, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 41, ill.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 74, ill. lent by Tate Gallery, London.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 59, ill. c. 1892–93, catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Johnstone, John Hope. "Les collections anglaises: I. - La collection Stoop." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 6 (June 1932), ill. p. 199, as Nature morte à la cruche, Collection Stoop.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 749, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte à la cruche.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 191.
Alley, Ronald. The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. London: Tate Gallery, 1959, p.35, pl. 22h.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 151.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37, ill.
Hoog, Michel. "Une Nature morte de Cézanne reconstituée." Revue du Louvre - la revue des musées de France, no. 3 (July 1992), p. 66, fig. 6, as Nature morte.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 53, ill.
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. 738, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte à la cruche.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 45, fig. 37, as Still Life with Water Jug.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 14, as Nature morte à la cruche.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 289; vol. 2, p. 187, as Nature morte à la cruche.
Reissner, Elisabeth. "Ways of Making: Practice and Innovation in Cézanne's Paintings in the National Gallery." National Gallery Technical Bulletin vol. 29 (2008), p. 15, pl. 18.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Color Lab: Not-So-Still-Life." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116/7, fig. 11, as Still Life with Water Jug.
Record last updated March 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte à la cruche, c.1893 (FWN 846)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=716 (accessed on September 10, 2024).
