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 283
Paysage au bord de l'eau à Médan
c.1885–90
Alternate titles: Paysage au bord de l'eau; Paysage des bords de la Marne; Riverbank; Seelandschaft; Wasserlandschaft
Rewald (722): 1895–98; Venturi (634): 1888–89
Oil on canvas
28 11/16 x 36 3/16 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3468, huile; bord d'eau au premier plan; derrière q.q. indications de maisons; et des arbres très esquissées, 73 x 92 cm (200 frs)
Vollard archives: photo no. 448, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Alfort 1893–94
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 21, ill., as Wasserlandschaft, lent by Thannhauser.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 36, ill. lent by Private collection.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 43, ill. lent by Private collection.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 32.
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. 71.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Au fil de l'eau: Cézanne, June 17–September 15, 2000, no. 15, lent by National Gallery of Art.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 137.
Popp, Anny E. "Cézanne, Elemente seines Stiles, anlässlich einer Kritik erortert." Die bildenden Künste: Wiener Monatshefte (Vienna) II (1919), ill. p. 189, as Seelandschaft, Reber collection, Munich.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 168.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 83, as Seelandschaft, c. 1885.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Franzosen in Berlin." Der Cicerone 19, no. 2 (January 1927), ill. p. 53, as Wasserlandschaft.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 634, ill. vol. II, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Goldwater, Robert J. "The Glory That Was France." Art News 65, no. 1 (March 1966), p. 48, ill.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2393, p. 63, ill., as Riverbank.
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. 175, ill.
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. 722, ill. vol. 2, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 106, ill., as Paysage des bords de la Marne, dated circa 1894.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les 'Paris' de Cézanne." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 21, fig. 1, as Paysage au bord de l'eau, size listed erroneously as 79 x 92 cm.
Geskó, Judit. "Cézanne: Past / Present / Future." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, p. 24, suggests that the work was painted at Médan, probably in the second half of the 1880s.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 274, 1892–94, suggested new title: Le Mur d'enceinte du Buisson a Créteil.
Notes
According to Gesko (2017, p. 24), Cezanne set his easel on the Ile de Platais located between two branches of the River Seine (Bras to Médan and the Bras de Moteux). The little house seen in the painting was built by Zola for picnics and bathing; it does not exist today.
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Record last updated April 12, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage au bord de l'eau à Médan, c.1885–90 (FWN 283)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=700 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
