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 651
La Moisson
c.1877
Alternate titles: Die Schnitter; Landschaft mit Schnittern; Les moissonneurs; Les moissonneurs or La sieste des moissonneurs; Moisonneurs; The Reaper
Rewald (301): c.1877; Venturi revised: c.1877; Cézanne fils: Pontoise 1881; Venturi (249): 1875–76; Rivière: 1877; Cooper: 1877 (Burlington); Gowing: 1877–78 (Burlington)
Oil on canvas
18 x 21 11/16 in. (45.7 x 55.2 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 196, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Pontoise 1881
Private collection, Japan
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 317, as Les moissonneurs.
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, October 5–December 31, 1912, no. 5, as Les moissonneurs, lent by M. Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, not for sale.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 56, as Les moissonneurs, lent by Bernheim-Jeune; shown in an installation photo in Dauberville, 2020, p. 117.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 4.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 1, as Les moissonneurs, 1877.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 12, as Les moissonneurs, lent by Gaston B. de V.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 26, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 68, ill.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 9, ill. lent by private collection. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Published References
Gogh, Vincent van. "Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written on 12 or 13 June 1888 in Arles, no. 624." In Vincent van Gogh The Letters
The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition 4, Arles, 1888-1889, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, eds. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum and Huygens Institute, p. 124, fig. 6.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 196, as Les moissonneurs, c. 1880.
"A Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters, in Darmstadt." New York Times, July 6, 1913, p. 15, as The Reaper.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XVI.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 120.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 30.
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 144, as Die Schnitter, c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 151.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Goulinat, J.-G. "Technique picturale: l'évolution du métier de Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 5 (March 1, 1925), p. 22, ill., as Les moissonneurs.
Charensol, Georges. "Les détracteurs de Cézanne [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 496, ill., as Les moissonneurs.
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 57, as Landschaft mit Schnittern, c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXI.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 20], as Les moissonneurs.
Guenne, Jacques. "Chronique artistique: Une rétrospective Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 149 (June 1931), ill. p. 253.
Fry, Roger. "An Exhibition of French Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 376 (July 1934), p. 35, as Moisonneurs.
Zervos, Christian. "Renoir, Cézanne, leurs contemporains et la jeune peintre anglaise." Cahiers d'Art, nos. 5–8 (1934), p. 127, ill.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 63, as Die Schnitter, c. 1880.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 249, ill. vol. II, as La Moisson.
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 84, as Les moissonneurs.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin's Cézannes." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 211, fig. 45.
Delage, Roger. "Chabrier et ses amis impressionnistes." L'Oeil 108, no. 17 (December 1963), p. 20, ill.
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139.
Bodelsen, Merete. Gauguin og Impressionisterne. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1968, pp. 79-92, ill. p. 91.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux.'" The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 345 and procès verbal no. 40 (Duret sale).
Roskill, Mark W. Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionist Circle. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1970, p. 16, pl. 6.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin, the Collector." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 810 (September 1970), pp. 605–06, Catalogue no. 5, as La Moisson.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Lux: pl. 5, 8.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, pl. 9.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 219, fig. 107.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 47–48, fig. 6.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 101, ill.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne & Poussin: A Symposium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, pl. 25.
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. 301, ill. vol. 2, as La Moisson.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 204, fig. 5.16, as La Moisson.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Jas de Bouffan Landscapes." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanné. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 88, ill. in color.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 229, pl. 108.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 176, ill., as Les moissonneurs or La sieste des moissonneurs, installation photographs from 1926 and 1931 exhibitions, pp. 117 and 123, and photograph of painting hanging in Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p.7
Notes
Gauguin, who owned the work, copied the motif onto a fan (before 1884) and incised it on a ceramic vase (winter 1886-87). He probably left the picture with the dealer Alphonse Portier (54, rue Lepic) when he went to Martinique in sping 1887. Van Gogh saw the work at Portier's and wrote about it to his brother Théo. Bodelsen thinks the work was taken from Poussin's L'Été (Louvre)
Nicholas Poussin, L'Été , circa 1660–64. Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Moisson, c.1877 (FWN 651)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=299 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
