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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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 508
Paysan debout, les bras croisés
c.1895
Alternate titles: Paysan debout; Peasant Standing with Arms Crossed
Rewald (787): c.1895; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (561): 1888–92
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (82.5 x 59 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3716, huile; portrait d'homme debout les bras croisés; gris sur fond gris, 83 x 58 cm (175 frs)
Vollard C stockbook: no. 7036, homme debout, 82 x 59 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 438, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1895
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 31, as Paysan debout, lent by A.V[ollard].
Published References
Watson, Forbes. "The Barnes Foundation, Part 2." The Arts 3, no. 2 (February 1923), p. 146, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 561, ill. vol. II, as Paysan debout, les bras croisés.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 136, p. 237, ill.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 33, pl. 20.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion III: In Portraiture." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 2 (Autumn 1973), pl. 21.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 18.
Turner, Norman. "Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne." The Art Bulletin 63, no. 4 (December 1981), fig. 4.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 122, fig. 2.
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. 787, ill. vol. 2, as Paysan debout, les bras croisés.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 210, fig. 5.23, as Paysan debout, les bras croisés.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection - New Edition. Stein, Susan Alyson and Asher Ethan Miller. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, fig. 118, ill. p. 160.
Ireson, Nancy and Wright Barnaby. "Cézanne's Card Player. An Introduction." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 149, fig. 61, suggests that the model is the same as in FWN523 and 526.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 96, ill. p. 85, comments by Martha Lucy.
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. 207 p. 216.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 52, pp. 263–70, as Peasant Standing with Arms Crossed (catalogue notes by A. Dombrowski and N. Ireson).
Record last updated February 24, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysan debout, les bras croisés, c.1895 (FWN 508)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=764 (accessed on September 28, 2023).
