The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 844
Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri
1892–94
Alternate titles: Le rideau; Nature morte; Nature morte à la draperie; Nature morte au rideau; Still Life with a Curtain; Still life with curtain and flowered jug
Rewald: (846) c.1899; Venturi revised: 1900–1905; Venturi: (731) c.1895; Vollard: 1896–97
Oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 29 5/16 in. (55 x 74.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3687, huile; sur une table au milieu d'un [plit?] de nappe, et dominé d'un côté par une draperie bleu[e] deux assiettes de pommes au milieu un pichet, 54 x 73 cm (600 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3564, Nature morte; assiette de pommes, cruchon et draperie, 54 x 73 cm (600 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. [51] and [129], Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1888–89
Provenance
Exhibition History
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 14.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Art français du XV–XX siècle, 1955, no number, p. 56.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 22, ill.
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, One Hundred Masterpieces from USSR Museums, April 10–May 30, 1971, no. 54. Traveled to: Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 8–July 25, 1971.
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, From van Gogh to Picasso, April 30–July 16, 1972, no. 4.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Impressionist Painting: Exhibition to Mark the Centenary of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, 1974, no. 54.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Master Paintings from the Hermitage and State Russian Museum, Leningrad, 1975–76, no. 22.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 27, pl. 140. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 23, ill.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Capolavori impressionisti e postimpressionisti dai musei sovietici, June 14–October 15, 1983, no. 6.
Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 9. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 180, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 36, ill., (dated c. 1894–95). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 46, ill., as Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. pp. 104 and 212, as Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri, 1895-99.
State Hermitage Museum, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, The Morosov Brothers: Great Russian Collectors, June 20–October 6, 2019, no. 32.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 490, ill. p. 315, as Nature morte à la draperie.
Published References
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, ill. between pp. 28, 29, as Nature morte.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill. p. 216.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 92.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), p. 470, as Le rideau.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 66.
Réau, Louis. Catalogue d'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 743.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 731, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 17, listed p. 338, as Nature morte au rideau.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pp. 113–14, fig. 29.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, p. 116, fig. 32.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Voronikhina, Ljudmila N. Art Treasures of the Hermitage. Leningrad: State Hermitage Publishing House, 1961, pp. 162, 164.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 43, ill.
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. 176, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 133, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 187, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 454, fig. 59.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 57, ill.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 58-9.
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. 846, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri.
Schmidt, Katharina. "Cézannes letztes Stilleben." In Cézanne, Picasso, Braque: Der Beginn des kubistischen Stillebens. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 2.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Cézanne and the Unfinished." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 39, fig. 16, as Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri.
Whitfield, Sarah. "Cézanne and modern art, Essen." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1222 (January 2005), p. 59, fig. 53, as Still life with curtain and flowered jug, 1895-99.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 388; vol. 2, p. 245, as Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri.
Chiappini, Rudy. "Quel silenzio, in attesa del tempo della rivelazione." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 36, fig. 19.
Eiling, Alexander. "Cézanne's Metamorphoses." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 15.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 111, 1899.
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. 183 p. 189.
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed), ill. p. 315.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 208, fig. 1, as Still Life with a Curtain.
Record last updated April 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Nature morte avec rideau et pichet fleuri, 1892–94 (FWN 844)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=821 (accessed on October 6, 2022).
