Vase of Flowers
1900/1903
Artist, French, 1839 - 1906
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 101 x 81.9 cm (39 3/4 x 32 1/4 in.)
framed: 125.1 x 106.4 x 5.1 cm (49 1/4 x 41 7/8 x 2 in.) -
Accession
1958.10.2
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris) by 1912;[1] sold to Marius de Zayas [1881-1961] by 1916.[2] Purchased by Edward Steichen [1879-1973] for Eugene [1875-1959] and Agnes Ernst Meyer [1887-1970], Mount Kisco, New York, by 1921;[3] gift 1958 to NGA.
[1]Lent by Vollard to the 1912 Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries, London.[2]Exhibited at de Zayas' Modern Gallery in New York in 1916. [3]Regarding Steichen's role, see letter dated 12 July 1977 from Katherine Graham in NGA curatorial files. Lent by the Meyers to the 1921 Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1916
The Modern Gallery, New York, 1916
1921
Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1921, no. 22
1923
Loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1923
1971
Cezanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Phillips Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, no. 51, repro.
1986
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986.
2011
Cézanne: Les ateliers du Midi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2011-2012, no. 32, repro.
2014
The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, 2014-2015, pl. 9.
Bibliography
1923
Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1923): 263.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 25.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 17, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 58, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 499, no. 740, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 79, repro.
1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: a catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New York, 1996:no. 893, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20190773