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 687
Apothéose de Delacroix
1890–94
Alternate titles: Apoteosi di Delacroix; Apoteosis de Delacroix; Apotheosis of Delacroix; Paysage avec personnages or L'Apothéose de Delacroix; Study for the 'Apotheosis of Delacroix'
Rewald (746): 1890–94; Venturi revised: c.1894; Venturi (245): 1873–77; Rivière: 1877; Ratcliffe: early 1890s
Oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27 x 35 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3785, huile. allégorie, 27 x 35 cm (25 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3575, Sujet allégorique, 27 x 35 cm (100 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 188, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 12, lent by Pellerin.
Palais de Tokyo, musée d'Art et d'Essai, Paris, Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d'Orsay 1980-1983, November 28, 1983–September 1984, no. 16, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix, c. 1894.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 63, ill.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 180, ill., as Apoteosi di Delacroix, lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Homage to Cézanne: His Influence on the Development of Twentieth Century Painting, November 15, 2008–January 25, 2009, no. 145, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix. Traveled to: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan, February 7–April 12, 2009.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 33, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 37, ill., as Apoteosis de Delacroix.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 23, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 25, ill., p. 59, as Apothéose de Delacroix, lent by Musée d'Orsay (dépôt à Musée Granet).
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 23, ill.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, October 18, 2015–January 16, 2016, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: National Gallery, London, February 17–May 22, 2016.
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris, Maurice Denis et Eugène Delacroix, de l’atelier au musée, May 5–August 28, 2017, no. 3, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 171, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 245, ill. vol. II, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
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. 54, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 169, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 71, as Apothéose de Delacroix, c. 1874.
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 35.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 50, fig. 20.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 1.
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 2, as Apotheosis of Delacroix, dated 1894.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), pl. 3.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 83.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 49, pl. 19.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 70, fig. 32 p. 71.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 29, ill.
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 15.
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 119.
Catalogue sommaire illustré des nouvelles acquisitions du Musée d’Orsay: 1980-1983. Lacambre, Geneviève et Thiébaut Philippe, publication directors, coordination. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1983, p. 14, no. 16, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix, c. 1984.
Gache-Patin, Sylvie. "Musée d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume: douze œuvres de Cézanne de l'ancienne collection Pellerin." La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France 34, no. 2 (1984), pp. 137-139, fig. 9.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. "Catalogue des oeuvres de Cézanne conservées au musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, pp. 222–223, no. 7, ill. and col. pl. p. 57.
Rewald, John. "Chocquet and Cézanne." In Studies in Impressionism, Edited by Irene Gordon and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986, p. 159, fig. 89, as Study for the 'Apotheosis of Delacroix'.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 70, ill. in color.
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 139, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 112, fig. 60.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 214.
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 65, as Apoteosis de Delacroix, 1873-1877.
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. 746, ill. vol. 2, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Reff, Theodore. Review of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. The Burlington Magazine 139, no. 1136 (November 1997), p. 801, questions Rewald's date.
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 20, 200, fig. 36, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. "The Path to Les Lauves: A History of Cézanne's Studios." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 26, ill. in color.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 136, fig. 81.
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 121, ill. in color.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 213; vol. 2, p. 148, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne et Delacroix au tour d'un hommage manqué." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, ill., as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 147, pl. 46.
Warman, Jayne. "Chocquet und Cézanne – eine einzigartige Freundschaft." In Victor Chocquet – Freund und Sammler der Impressionisten, Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet. Bern and Munich: Bundesamt für Kultur and Hirmer Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 190, pl. 81.
Bätschmann, Oskar. "Cézanne's Dream of Delacroix's Apotheosis." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 182, fig. 4.
Stuffmann, Margret. "Hidden Propensities, Cézanne and Delacroix." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 168, ill., as Paysage avec personnages or L'Apothéose de Delacroix.
Notes
According to Emile Bernard, the figures can be identified as follows: Camille Pissarro at far right at his easel, Claude Monet under an umbrella, Cezanne with a walking stick and Victor Chocquet at far left. The kneeling man with his arms upraised is probably Auguste Renoir, although not mentioned by Bernard. Delacroix is carried heavenward by angels.
Photograph of Paul Cezanne in his Paris studio working on Apothéose de Delacroix in 1894.
Related work
Record last updated September 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Apothéose de Delacroix, 1890–94 (FWN 687)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=724 (accessed on January 25, 2025).
