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 152
Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque)
c.1883
Alternate titles: Gardane; Gardanne; House in Provence; Houses in Provence; Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque; Les Maisons sur la colline; Maison à l'Estaque; Maisons en Provence – le vallon de Riaux près de l'Estaque; Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque; Paysage provençal; The Mas; The Mountain; Un Mas
Rewald (438): 1879–82; Venturi revised: 1883–85; Venturi (397): 1882–85; Cooper: between May 1883 and January 1884
Oil on canvas
25 9/16 x 32 in. (65 x 81.3 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 18, as Un Mas, lent by E. Fabbri.
Biennale, Venice, Italy, Mostra Individuale di Paul Cézanne, April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 11, (dated 1880), as Gardanne, lent by Fabbri.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, April 17–May 9, 1920, no. 57, as The Mountain, lent by de Zayas [this must be incorrect; Fabbri owned through the biennale, which came later].
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne, February 6–March 6, 1921, no. 13, as Les Maisons sur la colline, tentative identification.
Paul Rosenberg, New York, The 19th Century Heritage for the Benefit of Greenwich House, March 7–April 1, 1950, no. 2, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 55, ill. lent by de Zayas. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 69, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, July 20–October 17, 1986.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 33, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 71, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 14, ill., (dated c. 1880). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 27, fig. 88 p. 146, as Houses in Provence, 1882-85.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. pp. 133 and 207, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c. 1880.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 47, fig. 12, p. 53 (dated c. 1883). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 125, p. 372, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 42, ill., as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Published References
Nebbia, Ugo. "Sul movimento pittorico contemporaneo." Emporium 38 (December 1913), p. 421, ill.
Henraux, Lucien. "I Cézanne della raccolta Fabbri." Dedalo vol. 1, no. 1 (1920), ill. p. 55, as Gardane, 1880.
L.[ucien] H.[enraux]. "Une grande collection de Cézanne en Italie: la collection Egisto Fabbri." L'Amour de l'art 5, no. 11 (November 1924), ill. p. 341, as Gardanne, 1880.
Rutter, Frank. Evolution in Modern Art. London: George G Harrap & Company Limited, 1926, pl. 8.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, pp. 58–59, fig. 22, pl. XV.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 389, fig. 14.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 397, ill. vol. II, as Maison à l'Estaque (discussed vol. I, pp. 52–53).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 32, as Paysage provençal, 1882-83.
Bazin, Germain. "Métiers impressionnistes." L'Amour de l'art 27, nos. III & IV (1947), ill. p. 200 (detail).
Clark, Kenneth. "Landscape into Art: Epilogue." Art News 48, no. 7 (November 1949), p. 65, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 127.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 58, pl. XV fig. 22, as The Mas.
Venturi, Lionello. Four Steps toward Modern Art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956, pl. 28.
Badt, Kurt. The Art of Cézanne. Translated by Sheila Ann Ogilvie. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965, p. 81, pl. 6.
Goldwater, Robert J. "The Glory That Was France." Art News 65, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 85, ill.
Rosenberg, Jakob. On Quality in Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, pl. 83, pp. 107–08.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 184.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2655, p. 65, ill., as Houses in Provence.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, pp. 385–86, ill. p. 398.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, p. 209-210, fig. 50, as House in Provence, c. 1880.
House, John. Impressionist Masterpieces: National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Hugh Lauther Levin, 1985, p. 54, pl. 16.
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. 158, ill.
Rewald, John. "Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Mellon Collection." In Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor, edited by John Wilmerding. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1986, pp. 306–10, fig. 11.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 176, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 25, 337, fig. 161.
Gowing, Lawrence, and John Rewald. "'Les maisons provençales': Cézanne and Puget." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1050 (September 1990), fig. 16 and cover (with photograph of the motif, identified by X. Prati).
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 17, c. 1880.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 113.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 51, fig. 26, with photograph of motif, fig. 25, as Maisons en Provence – le vallon de Riaux près de l'Estaque, dated 1882–83.
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. 438, ill. vol. 2, as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 137, fig. 3.40, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Cendo, Nicolas. "A Dimension Known as Painting, L'Estaque, 1870–1910." In Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920). Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 185, fig. 2, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 25, ill., with contemporary photo of motif, p. 24, as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque.
Leca, Benedict. "Sites of Forgetting: Cézanne and the Provençal Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 12, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Bardazzi, Francesca, ed. Cézanne in Florence: Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Translated by John Venerella. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, p. 262, fig. 23, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 172; vol. 2, p. 121, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Hirsh, Jennie. "For the Love, and Fear, of Painting: Cézanne, Morandi, and Italian Modernism." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 372, pl. 125, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, dated c. 1883.
Nelson, B.R. "The portrayal of reflective life in action in painting: discovery of the inner life of sensory perception in watercolours by Turner and oil paintings by Cézanne." In Forms of Enlightenment in Art. Cambridge, England: Open Angle Books, 2010, pp. 171-174, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 122–23, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), with old postcard view of site: "Le Littoral. L'Estaque-Riaux. Berceau de Pierre Puget".
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Estaque, Art et Patrimoine, Chronique d'une double histoire. Gémenos: Groupe Horizon, 2013, p. 58, ill.
Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 211, pl. 99.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 58.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 101, fig. 31b, with color photo of motif, p. 99, fig. 31a, as Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque).
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, pp. 168, 189, 191-2, 201, 206, fig. 120 p. 158, as Houses in Provence, c. 1883.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 130, ill.
Blanc, Geneviève. L'Oeuvre de Cezanne à L'Estaque, Huiles – Aquarelles – Dessins, 1864–1885. Marseille: Éditions Gaussen, 2019, fig. 83 (discussion pp. 74–75), as Maisons en Provence—La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque, with contemporary photos of the motif (figs. 84, 85).
Blanc, Geneviève. Et si L'Estaque m'était contée? [privately published], 2020, p. 70, ill. with photo of motif.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 157, fig. 3, as Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque.
Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 4.
Vallon de Riaux, L'Estaque.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
View of Puget's birthplace by J-B Olive, from La Provence artistique et pittoresque, February 18, 1883, p.53
Site identified by Xavier Prati.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2004; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maisons en Provence (La vallée de Riaux près de l'Estaque), c.1883 (FWN 152)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=429 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
