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 704
Le Pain et les oeufs
1865
Alternate titles: Bread and Eggs; Das Brot; Nature morte: le pain et les œufs; Pan y huevos; Still Life; Still Life with Bread and Eggs; Stilleben; Stilleben mit Brot; Stilleben, Brot und Serviette; Stilleven met brood; Un pain et des oeufs; Zwiebel, Eier und Brot
Rewald (82): 1865; Venturi revised: 1865; Venturi (59): 1865; Rivière: c.1866
Oil on canvas
23 3/16 x 29 7/8 in. (59 x 76 cm)
Signed and dated lower left in red brown: P. Cezanne 1865
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Sonderausstellung Paul Cézanne, April 22–June 15, 1904, no number, as Zwiebel, Eier und Brot.
Galerie Miethke, Dorotheergasse 11 and Graben 17, Vienna, [Französische Kunst der Gegenwart (Gauguin-Ausstellung)], March 15–April 28, 1907, no. 91 or 95, as Stilleben, tentative identification, lent by Vollard.
Nemzeti Salon, Budapest, Hungary, Gauguin, Cézanne, et al, May 1907, no. 77, as Still Life, lent by Vollard.
S.V.U. Mánes, Pavillon Mánes, Prague, Francouzští impressionisté [French Impressionists], September 27–November 30, 1907, no. 54, lent by Vollard.
Munich, Frühjahr-Ausstellung der Münchener Sezession, Spring 1909, no. 18, as Stilleben, Brot und Serviette, lent by Vollard.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 19, as Stilleben mit Brot, lent by Vollard.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Cézanne-Ausstellung: Cézannes Werke in deutschem Privatbesitz: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, November–December 11, 1921, no. 4, as Stilleben mit Brot, lent by Hugo Cassirer.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Impressionisten, September–October 1925, no. 1, (dated 1865), as Das Brot.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Republic, La Pintura francesca: de David a nuestros días, July 18–August 1939, no. 5, 1865, as Pan y huevos, lent by Mme F[ürstenberg]. Traveled to: Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina Republic, August 31–September 10, 1939; Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 1940; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1940.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 2, ill. lent by Cincinnati.
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, La peinture française: collections américaines, May 13–September 15, 1966, no. 53, pl. 39, as Le Pain et les oeufs, lent by Cincinnati Art Musuem.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 1. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 7, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 22, fig. 206. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 3, ill. shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Impressionist Still Life, September 22, 2001–January 13, 2002, p. 59, pl. 7, as Still Life with Bread and Eggs, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17–June 9, 2002.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill.p. 88, as Le Pain et les oeufs.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 4, ill., p. 80, as Le Pain et les oeufs. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 53, ill., p. 111, as Le Pain et les oeufs, lent by Cincinnati Art Museum.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 6, ill.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, June 14–September 22, 2014, hors catalogue. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 2014–January 31, 2015.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 1, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 51, ill. catalogued, but not shown. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 93, as Stilleben.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Letter to Clara Rilke, Prague, dated Nov. 4, 1907." In Briefe über Cézanne. Wiesbaden: Insel, 1952.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 88.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 87, as Stilleben, 1885.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 60.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 59, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte: le pain et les œufs.
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. 54, as Le Pain et les oeufs.
Gemeentemuseum 's-Gravenhage, afbeeldingen behoorende bij den catalogus van de schilderijen, aquarellen en teekeningen. 's-Gravenhage: Dienst voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen, [c. 1938], no. 30-33, pl. 78, as Stilleven met brood.
Scholari, Margaret, and Alfred Barr. "Cézanne in the Letters of Marion to Morstatt, 1865–68." Magazine of Art 31, no. 2 (February 1938), pp. 84–89; no. 4 (April 1938), p. 223.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 18 et p. 20, as Un pain et des oeufs.
Adams, Philip. "Cézanne." Bulletin of the Cincinnati Art Museum 4 (March 1956), pp. 17–18, ill.
"Cincinnati: Botticelli e Cézanne all' Art Museum." Emporium: Rivista mensile illustrata d'arte e di cultura 125, no. 746 (February 1957), p. 88, ill.
Elles, Iris. Das Stilleben in der französischen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Zurich: Origo Verl, 1958, p. 99.
Bruner, Louise. "Cincinnati: A Museum with New Walls." Arts Magazine 40 (December 1965), p. 38, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Apples of Cézanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-Life." Art News Annual 34 (1968), p. 40.
D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Necessary Cézanne." Art Gallery 14, no. 6 (April 1971), p. 35, ill.
Young, Mahonri Sharp. "French Painting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Apollo 93 (1971), p. 304, fig. 6.
The Mary E. Johnston Collection. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1972, p. 6, fig. a.
Zimmerman, B. "The Mary E. Johnston Collection." Midwest Museums Conference Quarterly, no. 1 (Winter 1972–73), ill.
Weisberg, Gabriel P., and William S. Talbot. Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 44, 92, fig. 29.
Weisberg, Gabriel P. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830–1900. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980, p. 153.
Art Palace of the West: A Centennial Tribute, 1881–1981. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1981, p. 51, ill.
Bettendorf, Virginia. "Cézanne's Early Realism: 'Still Life with Bread and Eggs' Reexamined." Arts Magazine 56, no. 5 (January 1982), pp. 138–41, fig. 2.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 54, ill.
Kitschen, Friederike. Cézanne: Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1995, fig. 1.
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. 82, ill. vol. 2, as Le Pain et les oeufs.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 28, fig. 19, as Bread and Eggs.
Freudenberg, Inken. Der Zweifler Cézanne. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2001, pl. 44.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 66; vol. 2, p. 61, as Le Pain et les oeufs.
Taylor, Michael R. "Learning from 'Papa Cézanne': Arshile Gorky and the (Self-) Invention of the Modern Artist." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 416, fig. 15.7, as Still Life with Bread and Eggs.
Leca, Benedict. "Le Monde est une pomme: nature mortes et portraits parisiens de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 111, ill., as Le Pain et les oeufs.
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. 497, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 204, fig. 141.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 316, ill.
Brettell, Richard. "Cézanne still lifes: Philadelphia and Hamilton." The Burlington Magazine 156, no. 1340 (November 2014), fig. 77, as Still Life with Bread and Eggs.
Leca, Benedict. "'The Painter of Apples': Cézanne, Still Life, and Self-Fashioning." In The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne. Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 1, as Still Life with Bread and Eggs.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, fig. 3.
Notes
It is possible that this work, which is both signed and dated, was submitted to the Salon of 1865 where it was rejected.
Discovered in 2022 was a portrait under the surface of the still life.
x-ray of the still life showing image underneath the outer layer, possibly an early self-portait
Additional material / links
- A portrait recently discovered under the still life (edition.cnn.com)
Record last updated December 9, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Pain et les oeufs, 1865 (FWN 704)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=96 (accessed on April 26, 2025).
