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Paul Cézanne  (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Date:
1878–79
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 x 13 in. (22.9 x 33 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1961
Accession Number:
61.103

This artwork is not on display

  • Gallery Label

    The date of this work is thought to be 1878–79, but 1883–87 has also been proposed. The composition is apparently a pair of separate studies that are unrelated to any of Cézanne's known paintings. It once belonged to the painter Édouard Vuillard; either Vuillard or Cézanne's dealer, Ambroise Vollard, is believed to have added the brownish tone that now covers areas at the lower left and along the right edge.

  • Provenance

    [Ambroise Vollard, Paris, until about 1895; by exchange for a work by Vuillard, to Vuillard]; Édouard Vuillard, Paris (about 1895–d. 1940); his nephew, Jacques Roussel, Paris (from 1940); [Sam Salz, New York, until 1961; sold to MMA]

  • Exhibition History

    Paris. Bernheim-Jeune & Cie. "Exposition Cézanne," January 10–22, 1910, no. 43 (as "Nature morte," lent by M. E. Vuillard).

    Paris. Bernheim-Jeune. "Rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)," June 1–30, 1926, no. 23 (as "Pommes").

  • References

    Lionello Venturi. Cézanne: son art—son oeuvre. Paris, 1936, vol. 1, p. 174, no. 508; vol. 2, pl. 156, no. 508, calls it "Quelques pommes" and dates it 1883–87.

    Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX–XX Centuries." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 3, New York, 1967, pp. 99–100, ill., call it two separate studies; believe that the brownish color at the lower left and along the right edge could have been added by either Vuillard or Vollard, both of whom were owners of the picture.

    Sandra Orienti in L'opera completa di Cézanne. [French ed., 1975; English ed., 1985]. Milan, 1970, p. 108, no. 479, ill., dates it 1883–87.

    Friederike Kitschen. Cézanne, Stilleben. Ostfildern-Ruit bei Stuttgart, 1995, pp. 77, 198, pl. 25, dates it about 1877.

    John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt, and Jayne Warman. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1996, vol. 1, p. 229, 563, no. 340; vol. 2, p. 108, fig. 340, calls it "Quelques pommes" and dates it 1877–79.

    Guy Cogeval. Édouard Vuillard. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington. Montreal, 2003, ill. p. 262 (installation photo), this picture appears in the background of a Vuillard photograph taken in the artist's rue Truffaut apartment, about 1902–4.



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