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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 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
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Vitale Bloch, Paris
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York
Oliver B. James, New York;
James Collection, Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 19, 1955, no. 53, ill.
Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1963, no. 111, ill.
Paul Kantor, Los Angeles
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Weisman, Beverly Hills;
Frederick A. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills
Exhibition History
1938b Amsterdam
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 1939c
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 84.Venturi 1951
Venturi, Lionello. "Giunte a Cézanne." Commentari 2, no. 1 (January–March 1951), p. 47.Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 42, p. 127, as La Toilette .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. 872, ill. vol. 2, as La Toilette .Ballas 2002
Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 288, no. 99, ill., as La Toilette .Lobstein 2017a
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 358, ill.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. 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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Record last updated February 16, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 April 25, 2024).
