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 695
La Toilette
c.1900
Alternate titles: Femme se déshabillant; The Toilette
Rewald (872): c.1900; Venturi revised: 1895–1900
Oil on canvas
14 3/16 x 10 13/16 in. (36 x 27.5 cm)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 928, la toilette; huile, 35 x 27 (2,000)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 34, as Femme se déshabillant, lent by Vitale Bloch.
Published References
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 84.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 42, p. 127, as La Toilette .
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. 872, ill. vol. 2, as La Toilette .
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 288, no. 99, ill., as La Toilette .
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 358, ill.
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. 131, fig. 8, as The Toilette.
Notes
Inspired by Delacroix's painting Le lever which Cezanne probably knew from a reproduction in L'Artiste from 1851.
Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, 1850, oil on canvas. Maxime Citroen Collection, Paris
Lamy after Eugène Delacroix, Le lever, engraving (L'Artiste: journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts, 1851 (SER5,T6), after p. 96).
Photo: © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Toilette, c.1900 (FWN 695)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=847 (accessed on December 2, 2024).
