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 1800
Cicéron foudroyant Catilina
1858
Alternate titles: Lettre de Cézanne à Zola; Lettres de Cézanne à Zola ( datée du 29 1858); Lettres illustrées; Sept lettres illustrées de Paul Cézanne à Emile Zola et un croquis au crayon
Rewald (W1)
Pen and ink with watercolor on paper
8 1/2 x 5 in. (21.6 x 12.7 cm) (dimension approximate)
Inscribed at top: "SENTUS CURIA" and "Quo usque tandem Catilina, abuteris patientia nostra?
Private collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 173, ill. in b/w, as Lettres illustrées, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 79, as Lettres de Cézanne à Zola ( datée du 29 1858), lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 67, as Sept lettres illustrées de Paul Cézanne à Emile Zola et un croquis au crayon, lent by E. Fasquelle.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, Autograph letters: no. 02, lent by Eugène Fasquelle.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 40, as Lettre de Cézanne à Zola, vers et image à propos de Cicéron foudroyant Catilina, 1858, lent by M. J. Le Blond.
Published References
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, pp. 29-32, fig. 4.
Le Blond-Zola, Denise. "Jeunesse de deux hommes de génie: la vérité sur l'amitié de Cézanne et de Zola." Ce soir (Paris), May 17, 1939, ill. p. 4, as Cicéron foudroyant Catilina, 1858.
Lindsay, Jack. Cézanne: His Life and Work. London: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969, fig. 21.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 1, ill.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 73, fig. 2.21.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 9, fig. 2.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 65, ill.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 5.
Notes
The drawing accompanied a letter to Emile Zola, dated 29 ... [May-June] 1858.
Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Cicéron foudroyant Catilina, 1858 (FWN 1800)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=963 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
