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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Claude Monet, Giverny (Feb. 1902?)
(Prince Antoine Bibesco, Paris?)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York (1930);
Mr. and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman, New York;
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1972)
Exhibition History
1922 London
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.1925b London
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 17, as Nature morte, lent by Prince Antoine Bibesco; (tentative identification).1930e New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Opening Exhibition, October 4–31, 1930, no. 1.1931b New York
American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, Important Paintings from the Collections of Leading New York Dealers, March 15–April 4, 1931, no. 60.1931 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Still Life: Loan Exhibition Arranged by Students, April 4–30, 1931.1931 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Modern French Painting, May 22–June 30, 1931, no. 14, as Still life, lent by M. Harriman Gallery.1932c New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, March–April 1932.1933b New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fruit and Flower Paintings, May 13–31, 1933.1934 San Francisco
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 72.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 38, (dated 1895), as Still life, lent by Harriman Gallery.1936f New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Chardin and the Modern Still Life, November 1936, no number.1937 San Francisco
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.1938 Hartford
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Painters of Still Life, January 25–February 15, 1938, no. 51.1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 17, (dated 1895–1900), as Nature morte.1947d New York
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.1961 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 13.1974 Tokyo and traveling
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, 1974.1977–78 New York and traveling
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).1978a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 24, ill.1983 San Diego
Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, Selected French Paintings, 1983.1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 24, ill., pp. 80–81 (dated c. 1900).1998–99 Sydney
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.2004–05 Essen
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.2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2008 Humlebæk
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.2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 85, ill.2017–18 Paris
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 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed (?), as Pot en faïence de Chantilly et pommes.Basler 1930
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.Les Arts à Paris 1930
Les Arts à Paris, no. 17 (May 1930), ill. p. 21, as Nature morte.McBride 1931b
McBride, Henry. "The Palette Knife." Creative Art 9 (October 1931), p. 268, ill., as Still life.Loran 1935
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne at the Pennsylvania Museum." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1935), p. 87, ill.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 735, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2590, p. 65, ill., as Still life.Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Colli: pl. 6.Shiff 1984
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 1985
Baxandall, Michael. Patterns of Intention, On the Historical Explanation of Pictures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, fig. 25.Wollheim 1987
Wollheim, Richard. Painting as an Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, fig. 3.Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 191, ill.Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 121.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. 849, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits.Schmidt 2007
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 2014
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 2016
Patin, Sylvie. Monet's Private Picture Gallery at Giverny. Montreuil: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2016, p. 134, ill.Lobstein 2017
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 2018
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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 April 25, 2024).
