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 878
Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits
c.1900
Alternate titles: Nature morte; Still life; Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit; Still life: apples and jug; Stillleben mit Milchkrug und Früchten
Rewald (849): c.1900; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Venturi (735): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1890(?); Reff: c.1900 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
18 1/16 x 21 5/8 in. (45.8 x 54.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 11, as Still life: apples and jug, tentative identification, lent by Bibesco.
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 17, as Nature morte, lent by Prince Antoine Bibesco; (tentative identification).
American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Important Paintings from the Collections of Leading New York Dealers, March 15–April 4, 1931, no. 60.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Still Life: Loan Exhibition Arranged by Students, April 4–30, 1931.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 14, as Still life, lent by M. Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, March–April 1932.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fruit and Flower Paintings, May 13–31, 1933.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 72.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 38, (dated 1895), as Still life, lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, November 1936, no number.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 33, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Painters of Still Life, January 25–February 15, 1938, no. 51.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 17, (dated 1895–1900), as Nature morte.
A. Seligman-Helft Galleries, New York, French Still-Life from Chardin to Cézanne, October 29–November 22, 1947, no. 3, lent by Mr. and Mrs. William Averell Harriman.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 13.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 52. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
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. 29, pl. 146. 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. 24, ill.
Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, Selected French Paintings, 1983.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 24, ill., pp. 80–81 (dated c. 1900).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 10, ill., as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 233, ill. p. 97, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 147, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 52, ill. p. 22, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits, lent by National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 85, ill.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Monet Collectionneur, September 14, 2017–January 14, 2018, no. 61, ill. as thought by Venturi to have passed in Monet's collection, only a reference to a purchase in W IV [letters], p. 34, n312.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed (?), as Pot en faïence de Chantilly et pommes.
Basler, Adolphe. "Le Problème de la forme depuis Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 11, nos. 9 et 10 (September et October 1930), ill. p. 364, as Nature morte.
McBride, Henry. "The Palette Knife." Creative Art 9 (October 1931), p. 268, ill., as Still life.
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne at the Pennsylvania Museum." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1935), p. 87, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 735, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2590, p. 65, ill., as Still life.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Colli: pl. 6.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 213-214, fig. 53, as Still life, c. 1900.
Baxandall, Michael. Patterns of Intention, On the Historical Explanation of Pictures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, fig. 25.
Wollheim, Richard. Painting as an Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, fig. 3.
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. 849, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits.
Schmidt, Bertram. "Picasso und Cézanne. Zur Entstehung der kubistischen Bildsprache." In Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 44, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Württemberg. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007, p. 107, fig. 18 (detail).
Henkel, Katharina. "Jawlensky: van Gogh / Jawlensky: Cézanne." In Horizont Jawlensky: Alexej von Jawlensky im Spiegel seiner künstlerischen Begegnungen, 1900-1914. Munich: Hirmer, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 203-204, fig. 6, as Stillleben mit Milchkrug und Früchten.
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 134, ill.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 179–80, ill. p. 178, based on a lack of evidence, the author does not believe that this still life was in Monet's collection.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 195, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits.
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. 221, fig. 7, as Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit.
Record last updated April 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits, c.1900 (FWN 878)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=824 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
