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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1976.70
People
Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Title
Still Life with Game Birds
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Still Life of Game Birds / Game Birds / Gibier
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1872-1873
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227822

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil transferred to linen mounted on honeycomb panel
Dimensions
25.5 x 39.6 cm (10 1/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
frame: 38.7 x 53.3 x 2.5 cm (15 1/4 x 21 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on original stretcher (destroyed, 1960): COP.V.&S in 1 / C o f a l d D [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Gachet, Auvers, France (c. 1873-1909); to his son Paul Gachet. [Wildenstein & Co., Paris and New York, (c. 1950-1960) donated; to [auction to benefit the Museum of Modern Art, Parke-Bernet, April 27, 1960, lot 24, sold]; to David Rockefeller, New York, NY(1960-1976) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1976.




Notes
1999 Gachet collection exhibition catalogue dates his ownership to c. 1873-1909.
According to Douglas Cooper, Wildenstein received the painting directly for Gachet fils.
Some sources give a provenance of M. Buron, Paris, before Wildenstein. This is unverified and doubted by M. Potter, 10/4/76.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Rockefeller
Accession Year
1976
Object Number
1976.70
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of the Paul Gachet Collection, checklist, Unpublished (n.d.), no. 20
  • Paul Gachet, Souvenirs de Cézanne et de Van Gogh à Auvers, Les Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1928), unpaginated, sig. 13r.
  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), vol. I, p. 347
  • Douglas Cooper, "Le Centenaire de l'Impressionisme", Revue de l'Art (1975), no. 28, no.28, pp. 78-85
  • Margaret Potter, The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: volume 1, European Works of Art, brochure, Privately Published (New York, NY, 1984), no. 46, pp. 148-9
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 102; repr. as no. 372
  • John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), pp. 154-155 as no. 206. repr. in Vol II as no. 206 on p. 70.
  • Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein, Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), p. 205, P.g. II-20, repr. in b/w

Exhibition History

  • Segunda Exposición de Obras Clásicas de la Pintura Europea, Museo de Bellas Artas, Caracas, 01/01/1956 - 12/31/1956

Verification Level

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