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 850
Fruits et cruchon
1893–94
Alternate titles: Fruit and a Jug; Fruit and Jug on a Table; Nature morte; Pommes et cruchon; Still Life; Stilleben mit Äpfeln; Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Krug; Stilleben, Früchte
Rewald (741): 1893–94; Venturi revised: 1893–95; Venturi (612): 1890–94; Rivière: 1901
Oil on canvas
13 x 16 1/8 in. (33 x 41 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 519, Annotated: circa 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 26, as Stilleben, Früchte, lent by Blot, not for sale.
Galerie Blot, Paris, Natures mortes et fleurs, November 13–December 4, 1909, no. 4, as Pommes et cruchon.
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 19.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 11, as Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Krug.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 19, as Stilleben mit Äpfeln.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 4, as Nature morte, lent by Spaulding.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 8, as Still Life, lent by Spaulding.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, no. 12, pl. VII.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The John T. Spaulding Collection, May 26–November 7, 1948, no. 9.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Impressionism, June 15–October 14, 1973.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 21–June 17, 1979, no. 42, ill., as Fruit and a Jug. Traveled to: Denver Museum of Art, Denver, February 13–April 20, 1980; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 25–July 27, 1980; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, September 20–November 23, 1980.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, European and American Impressionism: Crosscurrents, 1992.
Chiba Sogo Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan, Still Life Painting from the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, April 2–May 18, 1994, no. 39, ill. Traveled to: Nara Sogo Museum of Art, Nara, Japan, May 15–June 19, 1994; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohoma, Japan, June 26–August 28, 1994.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, pp. 176, 178, pl. 82, as Fruit and Jug on a Table, lent by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 10, ill., p. 152, as Fruits et cruchon. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, MFA Boston Collection.
Published References
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "La curiosité." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 24 (December 15, 1921), p. 633, ill., as Nature morte.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed [dimensions reversed].
Goulinat, J.-G. "Technique picturale: l'évolution du métier de Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 5 (March 1, 1925), p. 24, ill., as Nature morte.
Watson, Forbes. "American Collections: The John T. Spaulding Collection." Arts (December 1925), p. 321.
Blot, Eugène. Histoire d'une collection de tableaux modernes, 50 ans de peinture (de 1882 à 1932). Paris: Editions d'Art, 1934, pp. 37–38, says he paid Vollard 300 francs in 1892 (not possible); erroneously refers to painting as no. 21 in the 1900 sale.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 612, ill. vol. II, as Fruits et cruchon.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 58, ill.
Dame, Lawrence. "Spaulding Collection of Modern Art Willed to Boston Museum." Art Digest 22 (June 1, 1948), p. 12, described as "a polished study of fruit".
Freedberg, Sydney J. "This Summer in New England: Paintings from the Spaulding Collection." Art News Vol. 47, Issue 4 (June- July - August 1948), p. 34, ill., as Fruit and a Jug.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 30.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 9, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 384, fig. 4.
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. 741, ill. vol. 2, as Fruits et cruchon.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektionen Martin Bloch, […] Werke von Paul Cézanne, […]: ca. 20. November bis 10. Dezember 1911." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912 vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Nimbus, 2016, p. 412, ill. listed as probably cat. no. 8, 9 or 10 in "1911c Berlin" exhibition.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 136, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 44.
Record last updated March 28, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Fruits et cruchon, 1893–94 (FWN 850)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=719 (accessed on September 11, 2024).
