A Painter at Work (Justin Gabet?) (Un peintre au travail [Justin Gabet?])

c. 1874-75

Paul Cezanne, A Painter at Work (Justin Gabet?) (Un peintre au travail [Justin Gabet?]), about 1874–75. Oil paint on panel; 9 ¼ in. × 13 ¼ in. (23.5 × 33.6 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum, 28.2017

This object is currently on view

Artist

Paul Cezanne, French, 1839-1906: Born: Aix-en-Provence, France

Country

France

Object

painting

Medium

Oil paint on panel

Dimensions

image height: 9.25 in, 23.4950 cm; image width: 13.25 in, 33.6550 cm; frame height: 18 3/8 in, 46.6725 cm; frame width: 22 1/4 in, 56.515 cm; frame depth: 3 3/4 in, 9.525 cm

Credit Line

Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Department

European and American Art Before 1900

Collection

European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

Accession Number

28.2017

Known Provenance

Justin Gabet [1844–1907], Aix-en-Provence; purchase, (Ambroise Vollard [1867–1939]), Paris, July 8, 1904, stockbook no. 4177. (Bernheim-Jeune), Paris. Purchase, (Paul Cassirer [1871–1926]), Berlin, May 28, 1916; purchase (same day), Josef Müller [1887–1977], Solothurn, Switzerland; sale (Christie’s), London, Estate of Josef Müller, March 30, 1981, no. 48. Dr. Marino Chiavelli [1927–1993], Johannesburg, South Africa. Sale (Sotheby’s), New York, November 14, 1985, no. 295. Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton [1927–2016], Denver; by bequest, Denver Art Museum, 2014.

Exhibition History

Französische Meister, Galerie Miethke, Vienna, 1913-14 (no.26?)
Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Dresden, 1914, no. 9
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1914, no. 8
Internationale Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1914, no. 76
Kunsthalle, Basel, 1921, no. 29
Kunsthalle, Basel, 1936, no. 13
Petits Formats, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1978, no. 23 (repr.)
Petits Formats, Albert White Gallery, Toronto, 1978, no. 2
"Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013 - 02/09/2014

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