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Catalogue entry

FWN 82
Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise
1873–74
Alternate titles: Auvers – Les petites maisons; Auvers, Small Houses; Cottages at Auvers; Houses at Auvers; Kleine Häuser in Antwerpen [sic: Auvers]; Landschaft; Les petites maisons à Auvers; Les petites Maisons d'Auvergne; Maisons à Auvers; Petites maisons à Auvers; Petites maisons à Pontoise; Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise; Small houses, Auvers
Rewald (220): 1873–74; Venturi revised: 1872–73; Cézanne fils: Melun 1880; Venturi (156): 1873–74; Rivière: c.1872–73; Ratcliffe: 1874–75; Machotka et al: circa 1874
Oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 21 3/8 in. (40.5 x 54.5 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 119, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Melun 1880
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Annie Swan Coburn Bequest) (1934.28)

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Provenance
Victor Chocquet, Paris;
Mme veuve Chocquet (née Marie Buisson) (1891);
Chocquet Collection, Galerie G. Petit, Paris, July 1–4, 1899, no. 15
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn, Chicago (Sept. 27, 1926);
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Art Museum,Cambridge, MA (1934)
Exhibition History
1900 Berlin
Bruno and Paul Cassirer, Berlin, III. Jahrgang der Kunst-Austellungen, Winter 1900/1901, November 2 - beginning of December 1900, no. 5, as Kleine Häuser in Antwerpen [sic: Auvers], lent by Durand-Ruel, not for sale.
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 22, as Les petites Maisons d'Auvergne, lent by Durand-Ruel.
1905 London
Grafton Galleries, London, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January 16-February 18, 1905; extended until February 25, no. 41, (dated 1881), as Cottages at Auvers, lent by Galerie Durand-Ruel.
1920d Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, December 1–18, 1920, no. 5, as Auvers – Les petites maisons, lent by Durand-Ruel.
1924a Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Paul Cézanne (au profit de la caisse du monument Cézanne), March 3–24, 1924.
1932 Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, The Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, April 6–October 9, 1932, no. 2.
1935 Kansas City
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, One Hundred Years of French Painting, March 31–April 28, 1935, no. 5.
1937 San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 3, ill. lent by the Fogg Art Musuem.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 5, lent by Fogg.
1949 Manchester
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, Monet and the Beginnings of Impressionism, October 8–November 6, 1949, no. 26.
1954 Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 97, as Auvers, Small Houses.
1954–55 Paris
Orangerie, Paris, Van Gogh et les peintres d'Auvers-sur-Oise, November 26, 1954–February 28, 1955, no. 15, ill., pl. VIII, as Petites maisons à Auvers, 1875 (?)
1959e New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 9, ill. lent by Fogg.
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 12, ill.
2005–06 New York and traveling
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865–1885, June 26–September 12, 2005, no. 44, ill., p. 135 (dated c. 1874), as Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005–January 16, 2006; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, February 27–May 28, 2006 (Cézanne et Pissarro 1865-1885).
Published References
Duret 1907
Duret, Théodore. "Paul Cézanne." Kunst und Künstler 5, no. 3 (1907), ill. p. 104, as Landschaft.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 44.
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1920b
"Le courrier de la presse: Paul Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 1, no. 26 (December 15, 1920), ill. p. 747, as Maisons à Auvers.
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 200, listed, ill. opp. p. 134, as Auvers – Les petites maisons.
Tabarant 1924a
T.[abarant], [Adolphe]. "Quelques propos sur Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 5, no. 5 (March 1, 1924), ill. p. 104.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 156, ill. vol. II, as Les petites maisons à Auvers.
Art News 1937b
"California Exhibits Cézanne." The Art News 36, no. 2 (October 9, 1937), p. 15, ill., as Houses at Auvers.
Jewell 1944a
Jewell, Edward Alden. Paul Cézanne. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944, p. 19, ill.
Rewald 1969
Rewald, John. "Chocquet et Cézanne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 74, periode 6 (July–August 1969), p. 43; p. 83, no. 15.
Schapiro 1973
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 35, ill.
Sheon 1978
Sheon, Aaron. Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 57.
Shikes and Harper 1980
Shikes, Ralph E., and Paula Harper. Pissarro: His Life and Work. New York: Horizon, 1980, p. 129, ill. with related gouache by Pissarro.
Jones 1985
Jones, Caroline A. Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, p. 50, no. 39, ill.
Brettell 1990
Brettell, Richard. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 166, fig. 145.
Thorold 1992
Thorold, Anne. "Learning from Pissarro: The artist as teacher." Apollo (London) 136, no. 369 (November 1992), fig. 3 p. 333, as Small houses, Auvers, 1874-5.
Rewald 1996
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. 220, ill. vol. 2, as Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 108, fig. 64.
Feilchenfeldt 2005a
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Cézannes in Deutschland." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 133, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 99; vol. 2, p. 86, as Petites maisons près d'Auvers-sur-Oise.
Mothe 2011
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 46–47, ill., as Petites maisons à Pontoise, with old postcard view of house titled "Établissements Fauvel, horticulteur"; the house at right still exists at 39, rue des Coteaux in Pontoise.
Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2011a
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Sammlungen Paul Cézanne, Louis Corinth, […], 2. November bis Anfang Dezember 1900." Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1898-1901. vol. 1, «Das Beste aus aller Welt zeigen». Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2011, p. 340, ill.
Notes

Alain Mothe has identified the site. The house at the right in the painting still exists in Pontoise at 39, rue des Coteaux in an area called Le Chou.  The same houses appear in Pissarro's  La Récolte des pommes de terre, Pontoise, 1874.

Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873–74 (FWN 82). Postcard view of the motif. The house still exists at 39, rue des Couteaux in Pontoise
Postcard view of the motif. The house still exists at 39, rue des Couteaux in Pontoise
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873–74 (FWN 82). Camille Pissarro, La Récolte des pommes de terre, Pontoise, 1874. Private collection.
Camille Pissarro, La Récolte des pommes de terre, Pontoise, 1874. Private collection.
Record last updated March 28, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Petites maisons à Pontoise, près d'Auvers-sur-Oise, 1873–74 (FWN 82)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=224 (accessed on April 25, 2024).