Oil paint on canvas
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Still Life with Water Jug
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
emotions, concepts and ideas
food and drink
formal qualities
fruit, apple
furnishings
jug
kitchen
objects
plate
space
table cloth
vessels and containers
<p>Cézanne was preoccupied with still life, and painted the same objects over and over again. His concentrated study of familiar items enabled him to develop a new way of capturing his visual sensations. He believed that conventional perspective, which uses a single viewpoint, did not accurately reflect the way that we perceive the world. In this painting, he combined several viewpoints of the fat-bellied jug and fruit. Like many of his works, it was left unfinished.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
17 October 2001 – 23 February 2003
2003-02-23
17 October 2001 – 23 February 2003
2003-02-23
2001-10-17
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2001-10-17
Virtual and Real
Collection based display
3 March 2003 – 2 November 2005
2005-11-02
3 March 2003 – 2 November 2005
2005-11-02
2003-03-03
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2003-03-03
Still Life Introductory
Collection based display
4 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
4 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
2006-10-04
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2006-10-04
Paul Cézanne Centenary
Loan-out
22 May 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
22 May 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
2009-05-22
Collection Jean Planque Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence, France)
17 October 2009 – 27 January 2010
2010-01-27
2009-10-17
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Hague, Netherlands)
2009-05-22
Picasso-Cézanne, le soleil en face
Loan-out
25 October 2012 – 17 February 2013
2013-02-17
25 October 2012 – 17 February 2013
2013-02-17
2012-10-25
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
2012-10-25
Cezanne and the Past
Loan-out
4 February 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
4 February 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
2014-02-04
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
2014-02-04
Cézanne Site / Non-site
Loan-out
16 June 2017 – 19 November 2017
2017-11-19
16 June 2017 – 19 November 2017
2017-11-19
2017-06-16
Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Martigny, Switzerland)
2017-06-16
Paul Cezanne
Loan-out
5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023
2023-03-12
5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023
2023-03-12
2022-10-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2022-10-05
The EY Exhibition: Cezanne
Exhibition
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
1 May 2025 – 1 May 2026
2026-05-01
2025-05-01
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2025-05-01
National Gallery Bicentenary
Loan-out
Still Life with Water Jug
support: 530 × 711 mm
frame: 710 × 900 × 90 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
<p>Cézanne was preoccupied with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still life</span></a>, and painted the same objects over and over again. His concentrated study of familiar items enabled him to develop a new way of capturing his visual sensations. He believed that conventional <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a>, which uses a single viewpoint, did not accurately reflect the way that we perceive the world. In this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, he combined several viewpoints of the fat-bellied jug and fruit. Like many of his works, it was left unfinished.</p>
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<p><b>Paul Cézanne</b><span> 1839-1906 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/cezanne-still-life-with-water-jug-n04725" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04725</span></a> </span><b>Nature Morte à la Cruche</b><span> (Still Life with Water Jug) </span><i>c</i><span>.1892-3 </span>
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<p><span>Not inscribed</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 28 (53 x 71)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Ambroise Vollard, Paris; C. Frank Stoop, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Paintings by Cézanne</i><span>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1954 (not in catalogue)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
J.B. Manson, 'Mr Frank Stoop's Modern Pictures' in </span><i>Apollo</i><span>, X, 1929, p.132; Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Cézanne: son Art - son Oeuvre</i><span>
(Paris 1936), No.749, Vol.1, p.226, repr. Vol.2, pl.246 (dated 1895-1900); Douglas Cooper, 'Two Cézanne Exhibitions II' in </span><i>Burlington Magazine</i><span>, XCVI, 1954, p.380 (dated </span><i>c</i><span>.1892-3); Lawrence Gowing, 'Notes on the Development of Cézanne' in </span><i>Burlington Magazine</i><span>, XCVIII, 1956, p.191; Douglas Cooper, 'Cézanne's Chronology' in </span><i>Burlington Magazine</i><span>, XCVIII, 1956, p.191; Ian Dunlop and Sandra Orienti, </span><i>The Complete Paintings of Cézanne</i><span> (London 1972), No.803, p.123, repr. p.122 (dated 1895-1900)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
L'Amour de l'Art, VI, 1932, p.199 </span>
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<p><span>This picture belongs to a group of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still-life</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of a relatively straightforward and simple character in which the table top is placed parallel to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picture-plane" title="Glossary definition for 'Picture plane'"><span>picture plane</span></a> and is somewhat tilted towards it; and in which there is a plain cloth lying across the table, with plates and fruit placed on or by it, and a larger object at the back (cf. Venturi Nos.498, 599, 600-1, 606, 619, all of which can with reasonable certainty be assigned to the period 1888-93). It is rather difficult to date this work precisely owing to its unfinished condition, but it may be compared with the Courtauld Institute version of 'The Card Players', painted </span><i>c</i><span>.1893, and with the unfinished still life Venturi No.707, of the same period. The presence of the blue water jug (an object still in Cézanne's last studio at the Chemin des Lauves) seems to prove that it was painted at Aix. The jug also appears in the still lifes Venturi Nos.499, 500, 601, 609, 612 and 622. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.104-5, reproduced p.104</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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emotions, concepts and ideas food and drink formal qualities fruit, apple furnishings jug kitchen objects plate space table cloth vessels and containers