The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
FWN 48
La Tranchée
1867–68
Alternate title: Railroad Cut
Rewald: (89) 1867–68; Venturi revised: c.1870; Venturi: (42) 1867–70
Oil on gray paper mounted on cardboard
7 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (19.1 x 31.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Naissance de l'impressionnisme: exposition organisée au profit de la Société des Amis de Delacroix, May 11–29, 1937, no. 84, as La Tranchée, c. 1866, collection Paul Cézanne fils.
Valentine Gallery, New York, Four Paintings by Cézanne, 1939, III, ill., as La Tranchée.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 4, ill. (with photograph of the subject).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 42, ill. vol. II, as La Tranchée.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 62.
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), p. 23n, pl. 43.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 37, fig. 12, with photograph of motif, p. 36, fig. 11, as La Tranchée.
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. 89, ill. vol. 2, as La Tranchée.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 33, ill., with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 32, as La Tranchée.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 65, fig. 11b, with black and white photo of motif, fig. 11a, as La Tranchée.
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. 283 p. 297 (fig. 284 photograph of motif, J. Rewald, c. 1935 p. 297).
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 2, pp. 62–66, as Railroad Cut (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
Record last updated November 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "La Tranchée, 1867–68 (FWN 48)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=102 (accessed on November 28, 2021).
