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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 667
La Famille de paysans, d'après Adriaen van Ostade
1885–90
Alternate titles: Intérieur (interprétation d'une gravure); Peasant Family
Rewald (589): 1885–90; Vollard: c.1885; Other: Novotny: 1880
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Eugène Murer, Auvers-sur-Oise and Paris;
Paul Meunier Murer, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1906);
Lucien Vollard, Paris;
Mme Edouard Jonas, Paris
E.V. Thaw, New York
Robert Noortman Galleries, London
Galerie Koller, Zurich, June 3, 1983, no. 5128, ill.
Private collection, The Netherlands
Christie's, London, June 24, 1998, no. 23; bought in
Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2004, no. 217A, ill.; bought in
Private collection
Exhibition History
1910b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, D'après les maîtres, April 18–30, 1910, no. 65, as Intérieur (interprétation d'une gravure), lent by Vollard.1934g Paris
Galerie Seligmann, Paris, Réhabilitation du sujet: [XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles]. Au profit de la Fondation Foch, November 17–December 9, 1934, no. 75, as Interprétation d'un tableau flamand, lent by Vollard.2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 61, ill. lent by Private collection, Rio de Janeiro.2021–22 Budapest
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 117, ill. comments by Judit Geskó.Published References
Vollard 1931
Vollard, Ambroise. "Souvenirs sur Cézanne." Cahiers d'art 6, nos. 9–10 (1931), p. 389, ill.Novotny 1967
Novotny, Fritz. "Zu einer 'Kopie' von Cézanne nach Ostade." Pantheon, Internationale Zeitschrift für Kunst 25, no. 4 (July/August 1967), pp. 276–80, ill. in color with Ostade etching.Schapiro 1968
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 48.Geist 1975
Geist, Sidney. "The Secret Life of Paul Cézanne." Art International 19, no. 9 (November 20, 1975), p. 15, ill.Benjamin 1989
Benjamin, Roger. "Recovering Authors: The Modern Copy, Copy Exhibitions and Matisse." Art History 12 (June 1989), p. 188, fig. 51, note 78.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. 589, ill. vol. 2, as La Famille de paysans, d'après Adriaen van Ostade.Geskó 2012a
Geskó, Judit. "'Builderly' Painting: The Making of an Exhibition." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17, cat. 61, ill. (detail), as Peasant Family.Geskó 2022
Geskó, Judit. "Abstraction and Meaning, The Budapest Holy Family with Saint Anne." In El Greco. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2022. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 62.
Adriaen van Ostade, La Famille, 1647. Etching
Record last updated July 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Famille de paysans, d'après Adriaen van Ostade, 1885–90 (FWN 667)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=937 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
