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 77
La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise
1873
Alternate titles: Étude à Anvers; Étude: Paysage à Auvers; House of Pére Lacroix; House of Père Lacroix, Auvers; La Maison du Père Lacroix; La Maison du père Lacroix à Auvers-sur-Oise; Maison du Père Lacroix, à Auvers; Paysage (Auvers-sur-Oise); Paysage d'Auvers
Rewald (201): 1873; Venturi revised: 1873; Venturi (138): 1873; Rivière: 1873
Oil on canvas
24 3/16 x 20 1/16 in. (61.5 x 51 cm)
Signed and dated lower left in blue: P. Cezanne 73
Provenance
Exhibition History
Studio Nadar (35, boulevard des Capucines), Paris, Première exposition de la Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, April 15–May 15, 1874, no. 44, as Étude: Paysage à Auvers, [lent by the artist].
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Paris 1874 Inventer l'impressionnisme, March 26–July 14, 2024, no. 134, ill. (shown in Washington only). Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, September 8, 2024–January 20, 2025.
Published References
Montifaud, Marc de. "Exposition du boulevard des Capucines." L'Artiste (May 1, 1874), p. 311, as Étude à Anvers.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 201, listed.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 35, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 138, ill. vol. II, as Maison du Père Lacroix, à Auvers.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as Paysage d'Auvers.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 148, ill. JW: ? (in notebooks).
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 44, listed.
"The Golden Years of France." Magazine of Art vol, 35, no. 5 (May 1942), p. 179, ill., as House of Père Lacroix.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1942, p. 67, ill., as House of Pére Lacroix.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 35, ill.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 246, ill.
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, D.C. 1953, p. 67, ill., as House of Pére Lacroix.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 299, ill.
Reidemeister, Leopold. Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1963, p. 62, ill.
Reidemeister, Leopold. "The Lens Verifies the Brush." Portfolio (Spring 1964), p. 16, ill. (with photo of motif), as House of Père Lacroix.
Pool, Phoebe. Impressionism. New York: Praeger, 1967, pl. 147, as House of Père Lacroix, Auvers.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, p. 11, fig. 10.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 1766, p. 61, ill., as House of Père Lacroix.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 162, ill.
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 52, pl. 15.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 153, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald. Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 234–35, fig. 56 (compares van Gogh's Houses at Auvers with this picture).
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 64, ill.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 53, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 41, fig. 18, with photograph of motif, p. 40, fig. 17, as La Maison du Père Lacroix.
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. 201, ill. vol. 2, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Maloon, Terence. "Classic Cézanne." In Classic Cézanne. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 19.
Brettell, Richard R. "The Impression in 1874." In Impression: painting quckly in France 1860-1890. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 5, as House of Père Lacroix.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 8, ill. also p. 44, with old postcard view of motif (7,9 rue de Gré).
Conisbee, Philip. "Cézanne's Provence." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31, fig. 14, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 23, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 95; vol. 2, p. 83, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 48, fig. 34.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 32–33, ill., as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, with old postcard view of cottage titled "Auvewrs-Chaponval. La chaumière et le vieux puits"; the houses still exist at 7 and 9, rue du Gré.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 61, ill., as La Maison du père Lacroix à Auvers-sur-Oise, photo of motif by C. Crès (p. 60).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 72, fig. 16a, with color photo of motif, fig. 16b, as La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise.
Elderfield, John, Mary Morton, Xavier Rey. Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 266, fig. 90.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 146, ill.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronologie." In Cézanne Portraits. Paris: Musée d'Orsay and Editions Gallimard, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 266, fig. 90.
Warman, Jayne. "Chronology." In Cézanne Portraits. London and Princeton, NJ.: National Portrait Gallery Publications and Princeton University Press, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 101.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 139, ill., as Paysage (Auvers-sur-Oise).
Notes
The house was located at the Sente de Gré in Auvers-sur-Oise. Alain Mothe suggests that this is the same house as in Maison dans les arbres, c.1879 (137).
Vincent van Gogh, Maisons à Auvers, June 1890. Toledo Museum of Art (Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey)
Postcard view of the house of Père Lacroix
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Site identified by Leopold Reidemeister.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1976; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 13, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Maison du père Lacroix, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873 (FWN 77)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=205 (accessed on April 24, 2024).
