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© The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Eugène Blot, Paris (November 26, 1895);
Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 9–10, 1900, no. 22, bought in;
Blot Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10, 1906, no. 19.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1910)
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne
Dr. Hans Wendland, Berlin and Paris;
Sequestre Wendland, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 24, 1922, no. 211.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
John T. Spaulding, Boston (May 10, 1922);
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1948)
Exhibition History
1895 Paris
Galerie Vollard, Paris, Paul Cézanne, November 11–December 15, 1895, Blot buys.
1909 Munich
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 26, as Stilleben, Früchte, lent by Blot, not for sale.
1909a Paris
Galerie Blot, Paris, Natures mortes et fleurs, November 13–December 4, 1909, no. 4, as Pommes et cruchon.
1912 Barmen
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 19.
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 11, as Stilleben mit Äpfeln und Krug.
1913a Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 19, as Stilleben mit Äpfeln.
1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 4, as Nature morte, lent by Spaulding.
1929 Cambridge, Mass.
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.
1939 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paintings Drawings Prints from Private Collections in New England, June 9–September 10, 1939, no. 12, pl. VII.
1948 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The John T. Spaulding Collection, May 26–November 7, 1948, no. 9.
1973 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Impressionism, June 15–October 14, 1973.
1979–80 Atlanta and traveling
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.
1992b Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, European and American Impressionism: Crosscurrents, 1992.
1994 Chiba and traveling
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.
2001–02 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2009–10 Montclair and traveling
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.
2020–21 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cézanne: In and Out of Time, November 11, 2020–February 8, 2021, MFA Boston Collection.
Published References
Tabarant 1921a
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "La curiosité." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 24 (December 15, 1921), p. 633, ill., as Nature morte.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 223, listed [dimensions reversed].
Goulinat 1925
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 1925
Watson, Forbes. "American Collections: The John T. Spaulding Collection." Arts (December 1925), p. 321.
Blot 1934
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 612, ill. vol. II, as Fruits et cruchon.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 28, ill.
Jewell 1944b
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 58, ill.
Dame 1948
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 1948
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 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 30.
Baron and Bonafoux 1993
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 9, ill.
Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 384, fig. 4.
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. 741, ill. vol. 2, as Fruits et cruchon.
Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2016b
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 and Feilchenfeldt 2016e
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 2018
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 March 29, 2024).