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 854
Rideau, cruchon et compotier
1893–94
Alternate titles: Curtain, Jug and Compotier; Curtain, Jug and Dish of Fruit; Curtain, Pitcher, and Compotier (Rideau, cruchon et compotier); Nature morte - Pêches dans un plat; Vruchtenstilleven
Rewald (739): 1893–94; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (601): 1890–94; Cooper: probably after 1893
Oil on canvas
23 3/16 x 28 1/5 in. (59 x 72.4 cm)
Private collection, Chicago
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago
Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Selections from 5 New York Private Collections, June 26–September 9, 1951.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 82, ill. lent by Whitney. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 50, ill. lent by Whitney.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 53, ill. lent by Whitney.
Tate Gallery, London, The John Hay Whitney Collection, December 16, 1960–January 27, 1961, no. 9, ill.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800–1900, July 3–September 7, 1969, no. 13, ill., as Rideau, cruchon et compotier, lent by Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The John Hay Whitney Collection, May 29–September 5, 1983, no. 21, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 159, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 45, fig. 38, pp. 36, 343, as Rideau, cruchon et compotier, shown in New York and Chicago only. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 90, p. 276, as Rideau, cruchon et compotier.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 60, ill. Private collection. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Guillaume, Paul. "Le docteur Barnes." Les Arts à Paris, no. 7 (Jan. 1923), ill. p. 9, as Nature morte - Pêches dans un plat.
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 484, ill. p. 81.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 601, ill. vol. II, as Rideau, cruchon et compotier.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 122, p. 274, ill.
Niehaus, Kasper. "Paul Cézanne, redder der schilderkunst." De Telegraaf (Amsterdam), January 15, 1939, ill. p. 9, as Vruchtenstilleven.
Rewald, John. "French Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney." Connoisseur (American ed.) 137 (April 1956), pp. 136, 138, ill.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 35, pl. 12.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 3.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 162, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 271, pl. XIII.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 45.
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. 739, ill. vol. 2, as Rideau, cruchon et compotier.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 126, fig. 3.27, as Rideau, cruchon et compotier.
Jensen, Robert. "Vollard and Cézanne: An Anatomy of a Relationship." In Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 38, as Curtain, Jug and Dish of Fruit.
Golding, John. "Cézanne, Braque and Pictorial Space." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 276, pl. 90, as Curtain, Jug and Compotier.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne Crosses the Atlantic: Vollard and American Collections." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, fig. 4.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne in the Studio." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 220, fig. 15, as Curtain, Pitcher, and Compotier (Rideau, cruchon et compotier).
Kang, Cindy. "'Intense, Passionate, Almost Cruel': Barnes Collects Cézanne." In Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021, fig. 4, as Curtain, Jug and Dish of Fruit.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 35.
Muir, Kimberly, Kristi Dahm, Giovanni Verri, Maria Kokkori, and Clara Granzotto. "'A Harmony Parallel to Nature' – Color, Form, and Space in Cezanne's Watercolors and Oil Paintings." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, pp. 52, 55, figs. 7 and 12 (details).
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 10 with photo of the Betschdorf jug by the author, fig. 9.
Record last updated December 9, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rideau, cruchon et compotier, 1893–94 (FWN 854)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=717 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
