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 857
La Bouteille de menthe
1893–95
Alternate titles: Grande nature morte; La Bouteille de peppermint; La Carafe; Nature morte; Still Life; Still Life with Peppermint Bottle
Rewald (772): 1893–95; Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (625): 1890–94; Gowing: c.1892 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
25 7/8 x 32 5/16 in. (65.7 x 82 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3757, huile. nature morte. sur une table une étoffe bleue, une nap[p]e une carafe, une bouteille, q.q. fruits, 65 x 81 cm (250 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des artistes indépendants, Grandes serres de l'Exposition universelle (Cours-la-reine), Paris, 17e exposition, April 20–May 21, 1901, no. 154, as Nature morte, lent by Vollard.
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 43, as La Carafe, lent by Gangnat.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 42, as Nature morte, lent by E. St[aub?]
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 1, as Grande nature morte, lent by M/M Chester Dale.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection, October 1928, no. 3.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 26, ill., as Still Life, lent by M/M Chester Dale.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, "La nature morte" from Chardin to the abstract: a show for comparison illustrated by examples from the Chester Dale Collection, January 1930, no. 5, as Grande nature morte.
Galerie George Petit, Paris, Cent ans de peinture française: exposition au profit de la cité universitaire, June 15–30, 1930, no. 27, ill., as Nature morte, lent by M. and Mme Chester Dale, New-York.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 35, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Published References
Bernard, Émile. "La technique de Paul Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 276, as Nature morte.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 228, as Nature morte.
René-Jean. "L'art français dans une collection suisse: la collection de M. Staub-Terlinden." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris) vol. 6, no. 8 (August 1923), ill. p. 471, as Nature morte.
Courthion, Pierre. "L'art français dans les collections privées en Suisse (suite): La collection Emile Staub." L'Amour de l'art 7, no. 2 (February 1926), p. 42, ill. p. 44, as Nature morte.
"Au Musée d'Art moderne de New-York." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 12 (December 20,1929), ill. p. 8, as Nature morte.
Dale, Chester and Maud Dale. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, no. 59, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim, translated by Elsa Glaser. "Aus dem Leben Cézannes." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 7 (1929), ill. p. 277.
McBride, Henry. "The Chester Dale Collection at New-York." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 14 (April 1931), p. 58, as Grande nature morte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 625, ill. vol. II, as La Bouteille de peppermint.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 10.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 160.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Now the Great French 19th Century in the National Gallery." Art News 40, no. 17 (December 15–31, 1941), p. 18, ill.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 71, ill., as Still Life.
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1944, p. 182, ill.
Jewell, Edward Alden. French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 94, ill.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 71, ill., as Nature morte.
Guichard-Meili. Henri Matisse: son oeuvre - son univers. Paris: Hazan, 1967, ill. p. 22, as Nature morte, c. 1890.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 134.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 32.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1768, p. 61 ill., as Still Life.
Bourges, Marianne R. Cézanne en son atelier. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 1977, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 34.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 406, ill.
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 56, pl. 17.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 171, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 184, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 57.
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. 772, ill. vol. 2, as La Bouteille de menthe.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 67, fig. 55, as Still Life with Peppermint Bottle.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 11, pl. 4.
Freudenberg, Inken. "The Chimerical Pursuit of Art, Paul Cézanne and Gustave Flaubert: An Affinity Explored." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 7.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 256, ill.
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 210, fig. 77.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 173 p. 180.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 42.
Record last updated March 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Bouteille de menthe, 1893–95 (FWN 857)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=749 (accessed on July 11, 2025).
