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FWN 640
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
1876–77
Alternate titles: Dans la Campagne d'Aix; El almuerzo campestre; Le déjeuner sur l'herbe; Nella campagna d'Aix; Paesaggio con campanile; The Luncheon on the Grass
Rewald (287): 1876–77; Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (238): 1873–75
Oil on canvas
8 5/16 x 10 3/16 in. (21 x 26 cm)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (Collection Jean Walter-Paul Guillaume) (RF 1963-11)

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Egisto Fabbri, Florence
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Madame Jean Walter (Mme Paul Guillaume), Paris (1936)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (1963)
Exhibition History
1920 Venice
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 3, (dated 1875), as Nella campagna d'Aix, lent by Fabbri.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 40, as Dans la Campagne d'Aix, lent by Fabbri.
1966a Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Collection Jean Walter – Paul Guillaume, January 1966, no. 2, ill.
1974 Tokyo and traveling
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 14. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
1974b Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 18, ill. in b/w, as Le déjeuner sur l'herbe.
1983e Paris
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Bonjour Monsieur Manet, June 8–October 3, 1983, ill.
1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 9, ill.
1989 Basel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: Die Badenden, September 10–December 10, 1989, no. 16, pl. 47.
1998–2000 Tokyo and traveling
Musée des Beaux-Arts Bunkamura, Tokyo, Chefs d’œuvre du Musée de l'Orangerie : collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, November 14, 1998–February 14, 1999, no. 2, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, February 23–April 7, 1999; Musée départemental d'arts, Hiroshima, Japan, April 17–June 27, 1999; Musée départemental d'art moderne, Niigata, Japan, July 10–September 12, 1999; Musée national d'art moderne, Kyoto, Japan, September 21–November 14, 1999; Musée d'art moderne, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4, 1999–March 1, 2000; Museum of fine arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, 2000.
2000–02 Montreal and traveling
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, June 1–October 15, 2000, no. 18, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, c. 1973-75. Traveled to: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 12, 2000–February 25, 2001; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, March 29–May 20, 2001; Art Gallery New Soth Wales, Sydney, June 1–July 29, 2001; National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, Melbourne, Australia, August 10–September 30, 2001; Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain, April 11–June 30, 2002.
2002–03 Paris
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Zola, October 18, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 34, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1873-1878.
2003–2004 Toulouse
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France, Cézanne: quartoze chefs-œuvres du musée de l'Orangerie, December 16, 2003–April 15, 2004, no. 9, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
2005 Bergamo
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy, Cézanne, Renoir: 30 capolavori dal Musée de l'Orangerie. I 'classici' dell'Impressionismo dalla collezione Paul Guillaume, March 22–July 3, 2005, no number, pp. 86–87, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
2009–10 The Hague
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 25, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 37, ill., p. 79, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, c. 1875, lent by Musée de l'Orangerie.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 54, ill.
2014 Tokyo
The National Art Center, Japan, Naissance de l'impressionnisme: La liberté de peindre. Collections du musée d'Orsay, July 9–October 20, 2014, no. 42, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 238, ill. vol. II, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Musée de l'Orangerie 1966
Musée de l'Orangerie. Collection Jean Walter - Paul Guillaume. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1966, no. 2, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Ikegami 1969
Ikegami, Chuji. Cézanne. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1969, fig. 9.
Blunden and Blunden 1970
Blunden, Maria and Godfrey Blunden. Le Journal de l'Impressionnisme. Geneva: Skia, 1970, p. 81.
Huyghe 1971
Huyghe, René. Impressionism. London: Bracken Books, 1971, p. 112, ill. (detail).
Plazy 1981
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, p. 117.
Müller 1982
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 7.
Arrouye 1982a
Arrouye, Jean. La Provence de Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1982, pp. 117–20.
Arrouye 1982b
Arrouye, Jean. "Le Dépassement de la nostalgie." In Cézanne ou la peinture en jeu. Limoges: Criterion, 1982, pp. 117–20.
Le Pichon 1984
Le Pichon, Yann. The Real World of the Impressionists: Painting and Photographs, 1848–1918. New York: C.N. Potter, 1984, p. 99, ill.
Hoog 1986
Hoog, Michel. Musée de l’Orangerie: catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 14, no. 1, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Hoog 1987
Hoog, Michel. Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Translated by Barbara Shuey. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987, pp. 14–15, no. 1, ill., as The Luncheon on the Grass.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 77, ill. in color.
Plazy 1988
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 67, ill. in color.
Lewis 1989
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne's Early Imagery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 107–09, pl. V.
Navarro 1996
"Paul Cézanne: el ermitaño tentado." Lettra inernacional (Madrid) 43 (March-April 1196), ill. p. 65, as El almuerzo campestre, 1873-1875.
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. 287, ill. vol. 2, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Coutagne 2004
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 90, ill. in color.
Von der Weid 2006
Von der Weid, Jean-Joël. Musée de l'Orangerie: guide de visite. Paris: Artlys, 2006, ill. p. 45, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Bardazzi 2007b
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 259, fig. 5, as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Pissarro 2011
Pissarro, Joachim. "Cézanne et Pissarro esthétiques de la résistance/Résistances à toute esthétique." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 79, ill., as Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Armstrong 2018
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 14.
Notes

For a watercolor of the same subject, see Rewald (1983) no. W47.

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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1876–77 (FWN 640)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=944 (accessed on April 24, 2024).