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 111
Paysage
1877–78
Alternate titles: La Plage; La Plage à L'Estaque; Landscape; Paysage du côté de l'Estaque
Rewald (382): 1877–78; Venturi revised: c.1878; Venturi (295): 1878–83
Oil on canvas
21 1/16 x 25 3/8 in. (53.5 x 64.5 cm)
Private collection, Texas
Provenance
Private collection, Texas
Exhibition History
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Painting from the XVth Century to the Present, June 8–July 8, 1934, no. 71, ill.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 18, (dated c. 1885), as Landscape, lent by Crocker.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Opening Exhibition (Modern French Painting), 1935, no. 3, (dated 1885), lent by Crocker.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 7, ill. lent by Crocker.
Department of Fine Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition: Masterworks for five centuries, February 18–October 29, 1939, no. 138, as Landscape, lent by Mr. and Mrs. William W. Crocker.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 295, ill. vol. II, as La Plage à L'Estaque.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Early Impressionist Sales 1874–94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux.'" The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June 1968), p. 346 and procès verbal no. 43 (Tanguy sale) (tentative identification).
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. 382, ill. vol. 2, as La Plage.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Paul Cézanne in the Monet Collection." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 176.
Mathieu, Marianne, and Dominique Lobstein with the collaboration of Claire Gooden. "Vue synoptique de la collection Monet." In Monet Collectionneur [Monet, The Collector]. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 268, listed and ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 153 (discussion p. 124 (suggests this work was painted in the North).
Notes
The site of this work and even the subject have been disputed. Rewald (1996) questioned whether this was a beach at all (in spite of the title he assigned to it) and thought it might have been painted in the North. As far as the execution is concerned, he connected it with La Maison de Bellevue sur la colline, 1878–79 (114).
It is possible that it represents a landscape, even a quarry, near Gennevilliers. According to the 1931 Durand-Ruel inventory, no. 260, Monet owned a work Environs de Paris, Gennevilliers 65 x 54, which may be this work with the size reversed.
Record last updated November 12, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage, 1877–78 (FWN 111)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=378 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
