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 659-TA
Les Moissonneurs
1875–78
Alternate titles: Harvesters; La Sieste
Rewald (454): 1880 (possibly later); Venturi revised: c.1877; Venturi (1517): 1875–78
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 16 1/8 in. (26 x 41 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland
Provenance
Exhibition History
Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, International Exhibition of Modern Art [Armory Show], February 17–March 15, 1913, no. 1069, as Harvesters, lent by Prof. John O. Sumner. Traveled to: Art Institute, Chicago, March 24–April 15, 1913; Copley Hall, Boston, April 28–May 18, 1913.
Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Boston, Armory Show, April 28–May 19, 1913, no. 23.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 4, (dated 1875–78), as Les Moissonneurs, lent by Sumner Estate.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Small Masterpieces of Late 19th Century French Art, December 2–31, 1939, no. 7.
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, French paintings of the 19th century, October 5–26, 1947.
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, The Post-Impressionists and Their Followers, February 4–27, 1949, no. 3, (dated c.1890), as La Sieste, lent by Wildenstein.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe, 1500–1900, October 14–December 12, 1954, no. 81, ill.
Bordeaux, France, La Découverte de la lumière des primitifs aux impressionnistes, May 20–July 31, 1959, no. 233, pl. 64.
Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6–28, 1963, no. 1069, pl. 185, cataloged but not shown. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, February 17–March 31, 1963.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1517, ill. vol. II, as Les Moissonneurs.
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 67, as Harvesters.
Grafly, Dorothy. "On the Subject of Man." American Artist 18, no. 10 (December 1954), p. 41, ill. p. 40.
Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show. New York: J.H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 229, no. 1069.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 26, 173, 192, fig. 8.
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. 454, ill. vol. 2, as Les Moissonneurs.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 204, fig. 5.17, as Les Moissonneurs, Private collection, Switzerland.
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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. "Les Moissonneurs, 1875–78 (FWN 659-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=445 (accessed on December 21, 2024).
