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Catalogue entry

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

Keywords

Provenance
(Julien-François (Père) Tanguy, Paris?)
Paul Gauguin, Paris (before 1884)
(Alphonse Portier, Paris, 1887?)
Théodore Duret, Paris;
Duret Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, Mar. 19, 1894, no. 5
Emmanuel Chabrier, Paris;
Chabrier Estate, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 26, 1896, no. 2 (Les Moissonneurs)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Maurice Leclanché, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (June 17, 1898)
Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Raphaël Gérard, Paris (September 1, 1942)
Albert Skira, Geneva (May 24, 1944)
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne
Mme Dubied, Neuchâtel
L.C. Stein, Geneva
François Daulte, Lausanne
Knoedler Galleries, New York (July 27, 1964)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Va. (Oct. 15, 1964)
E.V. Thaw, New York
Kunio Fukumoto, Tokyo
Christie's, London, July 2 1974, no. 82, ill.; bought in
Private collection, Japan
Exhibition History
1905b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 3e exposition, October 18–November 25, 1905, no. 317, as Les moissonneurs.
1912 London
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.
1926b Paris
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.
1931a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
1934 Glasgow
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Painting in the XIXth Century, May 1934, no. 4.
1934b London
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 1, as Les moissonneurs, 1877.
1938b Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Honderd jaar Fransche kunst, July 2–September 25, 1938, no. 12, as Les moissonneurs, lent by Gaston B. de V.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 26, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
1966 Washington, D.C.
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.
1986 Tokyo and traveling
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
Van Gogh 1888
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 1907
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.
Soffici 1908
Soffici, Ardengo. "Paul Cézanne." Vita d'arte 1, no. 6 (June 1908), p. 328, ill.
Meier-Graefe 1910
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 65.
Meier-Graefe 1913
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 67.
New York Times 1913
"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 1914
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. XVI.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, p. 147.
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. 120.
Bernheim-Jeune 1919
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 1922
Friedländer, Max J. "Über Paul Cézanne." Die Kunst für Alle 38 (February 1922), ill. p. 144, as Die Schnitter, c. 1880.
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. 151.
Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 67.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 204, listed.
Goulinat 1925
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 1926
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 1926a
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), p. 448.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 57, as Landschaft mit Schnittern, c. 1880.
Meier-Graefe 1927a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XXXI.
Gasquet 1928
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 20], as Les moissonneurs.
Guenne 1931
Guenne, Jacques. "Chronique artistique: Une rétrospective Cézanne." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 149 (June 1931), ill. p. 253.
Fry 1934
Fry, Roger. "An Exhibition of French Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 376 (July 1934), p. 35, as Moisonneurs.
Zervos 1934
Zervos, Christian. "Renoir, Cézanne, leurs contemporains et la jeune peintre anglaise." Cahiers d'Art, nos. 5–8 (1934), p. 127, ill.
Benesch 1936
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 249, ill. vol. II, as La Moisson.
Huyghe 1936d
Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 40.
Vollard 1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris: B. Grasset, 1938, p. 84, as Les moissonneurs.
Bell 1950
Bell, Clive. "How England Met Modern Art." Art News 49, no. 6 (October 1950), p. 26, ill.
Guerry 1950
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 7.
Bodelsen 1962
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin's Cézannes." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 211, fig. 45.
Delage 1963
Delage, Roger. "Chabrier et ses amis impressionnistes." L'Oeil 108, no. 17 (December 1963), p. 20, ill.
Guerry 1966
Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 14.
Andersen 1967a
Andersen, Wayne V. "Cézanne, Tanguy, Choquet [sic]." The Art Bulletin 49, no. 2 (June 1967), p. 139.
Bodelsen 1968a
Bodelsen, Merete. Gauguin og Impressionisterne. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1968, pp. 79-92, ill. p. 91.
Bodelsen 1968b
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 1970
Roskill, Mark W. Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionist Circle. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1970, p. 16, pl. 6.
Bodelsen 1970b
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin, the Collector." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 810 (September 1970), pp. 605–06, Catalogue no. 5, as La Moisson.
Ponente 1981
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Lux: pl. 5, 8.
Pickvance and Takumi 1986
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 35, pl. 9.
Rewald 1989
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 1990
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 47–48, fig. 6.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 101, ill.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 73, fig. 59.
Kendall 1993a
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne & Poussin: A Symposium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, pl. 25.
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. 301, ill. vol. 2, as La Moisson.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 123, fig. 73.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003
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 2004
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 2013
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 229, pl. 108.
Dauberville 2020
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
Nagaï 2021b
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cezanne chez Gauguin." Aesthetics, nos. 23-24 (2021), p. 33, fig. 9.
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)

La Moisson, c.1877 (FWN 651). Nicholas Poussin, L'Été , circa 1660–64. Musée du Louvre, Paris
Nicholas Poussin, L'Été , circa 1660–64. Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Record last updated July 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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 March 29, 2024).