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 149
Le Château de Médan
c.1880
Alternate titles: Château de Médan; Emile Zola's Country-house; La Maison de Zola à Médan; Maison de Zola à Medan; Maison Zola; The Château de Médan; Zola's House at Médan
Rewald (437): c.1880; Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (325): 1879–81; Cooper: 1879–80; Gowing: c.1880 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: c.1880; Other: Novotny: 1879–80
Oil on canvas
23 3/16 x 28 5/16 in. (59 x 72 cm)
Signed lower left in red: P. Cezanne
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kunstforeningen (Copenhagen Art Society), Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordiske og Franske Impressionister [Scandinavian and French Impressionists], October 30–November 11, 1889, lent by Gauguin.
Galerie Alfred Gold, Viktoriastraße 5, Berlin, [unknown title], June/July 1927.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, French Painting of the 19th Century, January 1934, no. 11. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, February 1934; Art Association, Montreal, March 1934.
Johnson Galleries, Montreal, November 1935.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Corot to Cézanne, June 1936, no. 3, ill., as La Maison de Zola à Médan, 1880.
Reid & Lefevre, London, Boudin and Some Contemporaries, October 1936, no. 20, ill.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Paul Cézanne, November–December 1936, no. 12, as La Maison de Zola à Médan.
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1937, no. 14, ill.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Cézanne, January 5, 1937.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Cézanne and Renoir, February 1937.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Cézanne, June 1937, no. 12, ill., as La Maison de Zola à Médan, dated c. 1880.
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom, The Spirit of France, June 1943, no. 51.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, A Century of French Art, 1840–1940, 1944, no. 193.
Arts Council of Great Britain, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Paintings from the Burrell Collection, 1947, no. 10, ill. Traveled to: Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom, June 10–28, 1947; Aidrie Museum, Airdrie, Scotland, United Kingdom, September 20–October 4, 1947 ("Paul Cézanne, who has influenced modern art more perhaps than any other painter; 'La Maison de Zola' is a typical example of his best known period." John Laurie, "A Review of the Exhibits" in: The Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, September 27, 1947, p. 8).
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 303, as Zola's House at Médan, c. 1880, lent by the Glasgow Corporation (Burrell Collection).
Glasgow Art Gallery, The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 19th Century French Pictures in the Burrell Collection, Glas, ill., p. 9, as La Maison de Zola à Médan.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, French Paintings of the 19th Century from the Burrell Collection, 1950–51, no. 10, pl. VIII. Traveled to: Birmingham, United Kingdom, April 22–May 13, 1950; Temple Newsam, Leeds, United Kingdom, May; Art Gallery, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, opening June 24, 1950; Art Gallery, Perth, United Kingdom, July 12–29, 1950; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom, July 22–August 5, 1950; Bolton, United Kingdom, September 1950; Derby Art Gallery, Derby, United Kingdom, opening December 6, 1950; New Burlington Gallery, London, January 2–20, 1951; City Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom, January 27–February 17, 1951.
Glasgow Art Gallery, The McLellan Galleries, (Festival of Britain), Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Selection from the Burrell Collection, Summer 1951, no. 392, as Maison de Zola à Medan.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 22, as Le Château de Médan, c. 1880, lent by Glasgow Art Gallery; shown only in London. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Primitives to Picasso: an Exhibition from Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain, Winter 1962, no. 250, as Le Château de Médan, lent by the Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries.
Glasgow Art Gallery, The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 19th Century French Pictures in the Burrell Collection, 1965, no. 9, as La Maison de Zola à Médan.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting, November 17, 1979–March 16, 1980, no. 40, ill., (dated c. 1880), as Le Château de Médan, lent by Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. Traveled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 25–September 1, 1980.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 29, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 69, ill. shown in London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Glasgow Art Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom, The Birth of Impressionism, From Constable to Monet, May 23–September 7, 1997, listed p. 31.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 21, ill., as The Château de Médan.
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, Collection Burrell: chefs-d’œuvre réalistes et impressionnistes, May 18–September 23, 2018, pp. 42-43, as Le Château de Médan, c. 1879-1880.
Published References
Gauguin, Paul. Sketchbook, known as Album Briand. , p. 5 (as size 20), list datable to c. Jan. 1888.
Madsen, Karl. "Kunst. Impressionisterne i Kunstforeningen, II." Politiken, November 10, 1889.
Gauguin, Paul. "Letter to Edvard Brandes, Paris, February 17, 1894." In Bodelsen, Merete, Gauguin, the Collector, The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXII, no 810. September 1907, as ... les Cézanne ...
"Ausgestellt bei Dr. Alfred Gold, Berlin." Der Cicerone 19, no. 13 (1927), p. 425, ill., as La Maison de Zola à Médan.
French impressionists, old masters : 35 paintings selected from exhibitions at Dr. Alfred Gold's Gallery. Berlin: Galerie Gold, 1930, p. [18], ill., as Emile Zola's Country-house, 1877.
H.[erbert] R.[ead]. "Corot to Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 69, no. 400 (July 1936), p. 36, fig. B p. [37].
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 325, ill. vol. II, as Le Château de Médan.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 43 (with photograph of motif).
Cézanne, Paul. Correspondance. Edited by John Rewald. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1937, pp. 145, 165, 171–72.
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 Le Château de Médan.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 117.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 52 (with photograph of motif).
Catalogue of French Paintings. Glasgow, 1953, p. 9, ill., as Zola's House at Médan.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Notes on the Development of Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 98, no. 639 (June 1956), p. 189.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin's Cézannes." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 710 (May 1962), p. 208, fig. 41.
Chappuis, Adrien. Les dessins de Paul Cézanne au cabinet des estampes du Musée des beaux-arts de Bâle. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf, 1962, vol. 1, p. 69, fig. 31 (detail).
Reff, Theodore. "Cézanne's Constructive Stroke." Art Quarterly 25, no. 3 (Autumn 1962), pp. 221, 223, fig. 4.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. III.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 152.
Bodelsen, Merete. Gauguin og Impressionisterne. Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1968, pp. 79-92, ill. p. 85.
Bodelsen, Merete. "Gauguin, the Collector." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 810 (September 1970), p. 606 Catalogue no. 6, as Maison Zola.
Honeyman, T.J. Art and Audacity. London: Collins, 1971, ill. between pp. 104 and 105, as Zola's House at Médan.
Cézanne, Paul. Letters. Translated by Marguerite Kay. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976, pp. 164, 182, 189.
Wollheim, Richard. Painting as an Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, fig. 2.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 119, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 82, ill. in color.
Gowing, Lawrence. Paul Cézanne: The Basel Sketchbooks. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 17 p. 31, listed p. 145.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne & Poussin: A Symposium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, pl. 24.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 74, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 121, fig. 95, with photograph of the motif, fig. 94, as Le Château de Médan, dated 1879–80.
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. 437, ill. vol. 2, as Le Château de Médan.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 68, fig. 56, as The Château de Médan.
Harvey, Benjamin. "Cézanne and Zola: A Reassessment of 'L'Eternel féminin.'" Burlington, vol. 140, no. 1142 (May 1998), p. 314, fig. 21.
Schwarz, Birgit. "Landscapes." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 278, fig. 1, as Le Château de Médan.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 54, fig. 62 p. 53, as Château de Médan.
D'Souza, Aruna. Cézanne's Bathers. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, fig. 17, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 68, fig. 50.
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 86–87, ill., as Le Château de Médan, with old postcard view of the site.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 83, ill., as Le Château de Médan.
Warman, Jayne. "Cézanne peintre des peintres." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 166, fig. 82, as Le Château de Médan.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47, fig. 24.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Paul Cézanne's Loose Sheets in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel." In The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas. Basel: Prestel, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 226, fig. 8.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 50 p. 66.
Vintage postcard view of the motif.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Motif for no. 149
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, c. 1935; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by John Rewald.
Photo: Pavel Machotka; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Record last updated April 11, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Château de Médan, c.1880 (FWN 149)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=939 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
