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 524
Paysan en blouse bleue
c.1897
Alternate titles: Bauer mit rotem Halstuch; Der Fuhrmann; L'homme en bleu; Le paysan; Le Paysan en blouse bleue; Man in a Blue Smock; Man in Blue; Paysan; Paysan des environs d'Aix; Portrait d'homme; Portrait of a Man; Portrait of a Man in Blue; Porträt eines Fuhrmanns; Sitzender Bauer
Rewald (826): c.1897; Venturi revised: 1897–1900; Venturi (687): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1890(?); Reff: early 1890s or end of 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3485, huile; paysan assis cravate rouge chapeau sur la tête, 81 x 65 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 166, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1891
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XIV. Jahrgang, Winter 1911/1912, VIII. Ausstellung, April 12 - mid-May, 1912, no. 8, as Sitzender Bauer, lent by Vollard, Cassirer buys.
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 146, as Bauer mit rotem Halstuch.
Kunstverein, Ruhmeshalle, Barmen, Germany, Sammlung Reber: Ausstellung alter und neuerer Meister, Autumn 1912, no. 21, tentative identification.
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 13, as Der Fuhrmann.
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XV. Jahrgang, 1912–1913, Dritte Ausstellung, Sammlung Reber, Beginning January - January 20, 1913, no. 28, as Porträt eines Fuhrmanns.
Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, Germany, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, April–May 1914, no. 4, as Der Fuhrmann, lent by Paul Cassirer, Berlin.
French Gallery, London, Great Masters of the French XIXth Century (Ingres to Picasso), February 25 - end of March 1926, no. 4, as Portrait d'homme, 1887.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Arts Club Exhibitions: Some Modern Paintings, December 21, 1926–January 24, 1927, no. 2, as Portrait of a Man, Lent by Wildenstein Galleries.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 21, as L'homme en bleu, lent by Goodyear.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, [Goodyear Collection], June–August 1928, no. 3, ill.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, March 6–April 6, 1929, no. 7, pl. XXV, as Portrait of a Man in Blue, lent by A.C. Goodyear.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, French Art, 1929–30.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 313, (dated 1892–95), lent by Goodyear.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 37, (dated 1892–95), as Man in Blue, lent by Goodyear.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 88, as Le Paysan en blouse bleue, lent by Mrs. A. Conger Goodyear.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne (1839-1906) for the Benefit of Fighting France, November 19–December 19, 1942, no. 20, ill. lent by anon.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1951.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1958, no. 20, ill.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints Collected by A. Conger Goodyear, April 30–June 5, 1966.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 5, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 137, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 30, ill., (dated c. 1890?) Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 30, ill., as Paysan en blouse bleue, shown in Zürich only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 32, ill., (dated 1890–99). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 62, p. 236 (dated 1892 or 1897), as Paysan en blouse bleue.
Courtauld Gallery, London, Cézanne's Card Players, October 21, 2010–January 16, 2011, no. 23, ill., as Man in a Blue Smock, c. 1892–97. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9–May 8, 2011.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 62, ill.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Cézanne Portraits, June 13–September 24, 2017, no. 24.1, ill. Traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London, October 26, 2017–February 11, 2018; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, March 25–July 1, 2018.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 116, ill. c. 1896–97. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Gasquet, Joachim. "Le Sang provençal." Les Mois dorés (March–April 1898), p. 379, as Un [paysan] surtout, dans sa blouse bleue, décorée de son foulard rouge, les bras ballants [...].
Osborn, Max. "Cézanne. Die Ausstellung bei Cassirer." Berliner Zeitung am Mittag, April 26,1912, mentioned.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 218, listed, as Paysan des environs d'Aix.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XCIV.
Jones, Ethel B. "French Painting at the Fogg Art Museum." Parnassus 1, no. 4 (April 1929), p. 18, ill.
Watson, Forbes. "Cleveland Museum's French Exhibition." Arts 16, 5 (January 1930), p. 332, ill.
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress, vol. I. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933, pl. 123.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Art in the Century in Progress." Fine Arts 20, no. 2 (June 1933), p. 36, ill.
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne at the Pennsylvania Museum." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1935), p. 88, ill.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 18 p. 12 et no. 17952 p. 14 (portfolio of 10 color plates).
Bulliet, Clarence Joseph. The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures. New York: Covici, 1936, pl. 12.
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as L'homme en bleu.
Ors, Eugenio d.' "Crise de Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 15, periode 6 (June 1936), ill. cover (detail).
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 78, as Le paysan, c. 1875.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 687, ill. vol. II, as Paysan.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, pl. 22.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?), cover.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 149, p. 256, ill. (analysis p. 383).
Venturi, Lionello. "Cézanne: Fighter for Freedom." Art News 41, no. 13 (November 15, 1942), p. 16, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 9.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 39.
Lesko, Diane. "Cézanne's 'Bather' and a Found Self-Portrait." Artforum 15, no. 4 (December 1976), p. 56, ill.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 10.
Reff, Theodore. "Painting and Theory in the Final Decade." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 20, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "The Pictures within Cézanne's Pictures." Arts Magazine 53, no. 10 (June 1979), fig. 25.
"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1980." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1346 (March 1981), p. 41, no. 223, ill., as Paysan, c. 1895-97.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 33.
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. 826, ill. vol. 2, as Paysan en blouse bleue.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 188, fig. 5.1, as Paysan en blouse bleue.
Ely, Bruno. "'Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus.' The purchase and sale of Jas de Bouffan by the Cézanne family." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 6, ill. in color.
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Early Paravent at the Jas de Bouffan." In Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne, Société Paul Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Hexagone, 2004, fig. 42, ill. in color.
Bois, Yve-Alain. "Cézanne and Matisse: From Apprenticeship to Creative Misreading." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 127, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.
Elderfield, John. "Picasso's Extreme Cézanne." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.
Green, Christopher. "Cézanne and Léger: Realizing Sensations." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 203, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.
Kostenevich, Albert. "Liubov Popova: From Cézanne to Utopia." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 348, ill., p. 236, pl. 62, as Man in a Blue Smock, dated 1892 or 1897.
Ireson, Nancy. "Personalising the Past: Cézanne and the Cardplayers." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, fig. 40, as Man in a Blue Smock.
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 146, p. 556.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 329, pl. 152.
Dombrowski, André. Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, p. 235, fig. 96.
Christie’s. Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie’s. New York: Phaidon Press, 2016, pp. 204, 205, 481, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Paul Cézanne, E.R. Butler, Maria Slavona, G.H. Wolff: 12. April bis Mitte 1912." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1910-1912. vol. 5, "Verheissung und Erfüllung zugleich". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 552, ill.
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlung Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Barmen: Anfang Januar bis 20. Januar 1913." In Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1912-1914 vol. 6, "Eine neue Klassik". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2016, p. 134, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 81 p. 97.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 208, ill., as Paysan.
Record last updated August 14, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysan en blouse bleue, c.1897 (FWN 524)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=802 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
