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Catalogue entry

FWN 631
Un peintre au travail (Justin Gabet?)
c.1874–75
Alternate titles: Der Maler; Le Peintre; Le Peintre au travail; Maler im Freien; Pissarro peignant; Sitzender Arbeiter; Un peintre au travail
Rewald (233): c.1874–75; Venturi revised: c.1872; Cézanne fils: 1877; Venturi (237): 1872–75; Rivière: c.1872–73
Oil on canvas
9 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (24 x 34 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4177, Peintre dans la campagne, 24 x 34 cm (80 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 14, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1877

Keywords

Provenance
Justin Gabet, Aix-en-Provence
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (July 8, 1904)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1912)
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (May 28, 1916)
Josef Müller, Solothurn (May 28, 1916);
Estate of Josef Müller, Solothurn;
Christie's, London, Mar. 30, 1981, no. 48, ill.
Dr. Marino Chiavelli, Johannesburg;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 14, 1985, no. 295, ill.
Frederick C. Hamilton, Denver;
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (2017)
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 5, as Le Peintre, for sale.
1913–14 Vienna
Galerie Miethke, Vienna, Französischer Meister, December 17, 1913–January 18, 1914, no. 26 (?), as Sitzender Arbeiter.
1914a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914, no. 8, as Le Peintre au travail, for sale.
1914 Bremen
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany, Internationale Ausstellung, February 1–March 31, 1914, no. 76, as Der Maler, lent by Bernheim-Jeune, for sale.
1914 Dresden
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 9, as Der Maler, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
1921 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 29, as Le Peintre, lent by Muller.
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 13, as Maler im Freien, c. 1875, lent by Private collection.
1978 Toronto
Albert White Gallery, Toronto, Petits Formats, 1978, no. 2.
1978 Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, Petits Formats, May–July 1978, no. 23, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 105.
Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 122, as Der Maler, c. 1873.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed.
Fry 1929
Fry, Roger. "Cézannes Udvikling." Samleren 6 (July, August, September 1929), p. 116, ill.
Raynal 1936
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. XXX p. 59 (detail).
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 237, ill. vol. II, as Un peintre au travail.
Rewald 1937a
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 ...la toile ...
Hattis 1978
Hattis, Phyllis. "Zu den Bildern in der 'Schanzmühle.'" Du 38, no. 8 (August 1978), p. 49, ill.
Rewald 1986b
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 65, ill.
Coutagne et al 1990b
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 27, fig. 4 (detail).
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 63, fig. 51, c. 1873.
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. 233, ill. vol. 2, as Un peintre au travail (Justin Gabet?).
Colrat 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 422, pl. 184.
Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 194, ill., as Le Peintre, installation photographs from 1910 exhibition, p. 85, and 1914 exhibition, p. 102.
Notes

Justin Gabet (1844–1907) was a childhood friend of the Cézanne's and a cabinetmaker  by trade.

Record last updated January 4, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Un peintre au travail (Justin Gabet?), c.1874–75 (FWN 631)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=237 (accessed on March 28, 2024).