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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Auguste Pellerin, Paris (Dec. 9, 1904);
Jean-Victor Pellerin, Paris;
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (1982);
Musée du Louvre, galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1982-1984);
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (on deposit at the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence 1984-2004 and from 2006 onwards)
Exhibition History
1939 Lyon
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 12, lent by Pellerin.
1983–84 Paris
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.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 12.
1993 Tübingen
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 63, ill.
2002 Rome
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.
2008–09 Yokohama and traveling
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.
2009–10 Canberra
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.
2010b Tokyo
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.
2010–11 San Francisco
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.
2011–12 Paris
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).
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 23, ill.
2015–16 Minneapolis and traveling
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.
2017c Paris
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.
2017–18 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne at home, October 20, 2017–April 1, 2018.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Rivière 1933
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 171, ill.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 245, ill. vol. II, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 67.
Rewald 1937a
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 1942
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 169, ill.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 71, as Apothéose de Delacroix, c. 1874.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pp. 24, 135.
Badt 1956
Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, p. 112, pl. 41.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, p. 35.
Chappuis 1962
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.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, p. 25, pl. 12.
Lichtenstein 1964a
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne and Delacroix." The Art Bulletin 46, no. 1 (March 1964), no. 1.
Pool 1967
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 2, as Apotheosis of Delacroix, dated 1894.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), pl. 3.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 83.
Schapiro 1968
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 49, pl. 19.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 70, fig. 32 p. 71.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 29, ill.
Monneret 1978a
Monneret, Sophie. Cézanne, Zola . . . La fraternité du génie. Paris: Denoël, 1978, ill. p. 15.
Monneret 1978b
Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978, vol. 1, ill. p. 119.
Musée d'Orsay 1983
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 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 et al. 1984a
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 1986d
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 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 70, ill. in color.
Distel 1989
Distel, Anne. Les Collectionneurs des impressionnistes: Amateurs et marchands. Paris: La Bibliothèque des arts, 1989, p. 139, ill.
Coutagne 1990c
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 112, fig. 60.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 159, fig. 137.
Bonafoux 1995
Bonafoux, Pascal. Cézanne: portrait. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 207, ill.
Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 214.
Navarro 1996
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 65, as Apoteosis de Delacroix, 1873-1877.
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. 746, ill. vol. 2, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Reff 1997a
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 6, fig. 1.
Platzman 2001
Platzman, Steven. Cézanne: The Self-Portraits. Berkeley: University of California, 2001, p. 20, 200, fig. 36, as Apothéose de Delacroix.
Lewis 2002
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 2004
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 136, fig. 81.
Farber 2006
Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 121, ill. in color.
Machotka 2008
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 2011
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 147, pl. 46.
Warman 2015
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 2017
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 2017
Stuffmann, Margret. "Hidden Propensities, Cézanne and Delacroix." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4.
Dauberville 2020
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.

Apothéose de Delacroix, 1890–94 (FWN 687). Photograph of Paul Cezanne in his Paris studio working on Apothéose de Delacroix in 1894.
Photograph of Paul Cezanne in his Paris studio working on Apothéose de Delacroix in 1894.

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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 March 28, 2024).