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 833
Nature morte, pot à lait et fruits sur une table
c.1890
Alternate titles: Äpfel und Kanne mit Blumendekor; Natura morta: brocca da latte d frutti su un tavolo; Nature morte; Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits sur une table; Pomes i llimona; Pommes et Citrons; Pommes or Pommes et citron; Pot à lait, fruits et bouquet de violettes sur une table; Pot au lait et fruit; Pot au lait et fruits sur un table; Pot au lait, Pommes et Citron
Rewald (663): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1888–90; Venturi (593): 1888–90; Gowing: c.1895
Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 1/2 in. (59.5 x 72.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3518, huile; nature morte, pommes, et d'apies, citron, bouquet de violettes, vase blanc à dessin de fleurs; fond gris, 60 x 73 cm (400 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Äpfel und Kanne mit Blumendekor.
Nasjonalgaleriet, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, Fransk Kunst, September–October 1914, no. 17, as Nature morte, lent by Kunstmuseet.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, French Art, Spring 1917, no. 8, as Nature morte, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Kristiania.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, L'Impressionnisme, June 15–September 29, 1935, no. 2, as Pommes et Citrons, lent by Nationalgalerie, Oslo.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 67, as Pot au lait, Pommes et Citron, lent by Nationalgalerie, Oslo.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 81, ill. lent by Oslo. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway, Paul Cezanne: 28 malerier, November 13–December 1, 1954, no. 19, as Nature morte, 1888-90, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 25, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 56, ill.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 23, ill., pp. 78–79 (dated 1889–90).
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 87, ill., as Nature morte, pot à lait et fruits sur une table. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 172, ill., as Natura morta: brocca da latte d frutti su un tavolo, lent by Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 232, ill. p. 99, as Nature morte, pot à lait et fruits sur une table.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 40, fig. 25, pp. 21, 341, as Nature morte, pot à lait et fruits sur une table. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt, February 20–June 29, 2008, no. 36, ill. p. 65, as Nature morte, pot à lait et fruits sur une table, lent by Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 23, ill. lent by National Museum of Art, Oslo.
Published References
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XXII.
Sacs, Joan. "Les natures-mortes den Pau Cézanne." Revista nova (Barcelona) Year I, no. 22 (September 3, 1914), ill. p. 8, as Pomes i llimona.
Bye, Arthur Edwin. Pots and Pans or Studies in Still Life Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921, p. 138 (referenced).
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 214, listed (dated 1886), ill. p. 61 (dated 1890), as Nature morte.
Jamot, Paul. "L'art français en Norvège." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 12, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 90, ill. p. 105, as Nature morte, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 5 p. 3 et no. 17953 p. 15 (portfolio of 10 color plates).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 593, ill. vol. II, as Pot au lait et fruits sur un table.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 56.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 52, as Pot au lait et fruit, 1888-90.
Franske Malere (Peintres français). Oslo: Nasjonalgalleriet, 1959, p. 33, ill. dated 1886–90?
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 30, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 140.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, pl. 25.
Baron, Jean-Marie and Pascal Bonafoux. Cézanne: Les Natures Mortes. Paris: Editions Herscher, 1993, p. 31, ill.
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. 663, ill. vol. 2, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits sur une table.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 281; vol. 2, p. 182, as Nature morte: pot à lait et fruits sur une table.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, 22. April bis 15. Juni 1904." Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905. vol. 2, "Man steht da und staunt". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 517, ill.
Messel, Nils. The Impressionist Trail, The What, Where, and Whither of French Masterpieces in Norway. Oslo: Messel Forlag, Oslo in collaboration with Daniel Katz Gallery, London, 2016, p. 63, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 30, ill., as Pommes or Pommes et citron.
Lesieur de Trémaudan, Marie-Josèphe. "Ambroise Vollard, un marchand parisien actif dans la diffusion de l'art français en Allemagne de 1894 à 1914." In Les artistes et leurs galeries: Paris-Berlin, 1900-1950 II, Berlin. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaire de Rouen et du Havre, 2020, fig. 34 p. 192, as Pot à lait, fruits et bouquet de violettes sur une table.
Record last updated March 26, 2021. 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 sur une table, c.1890 (FWN 833)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=931 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
