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Catalogue entry

FWN 48
La Tranchée
1867–68
Alternate titles: La Tranchée de chemin de fer; 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)
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF1186)

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Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia (March 16, 1939)
Exhibition History
1937b Paris
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.
1939a New York
Valentine Gallery, New York, Four Paintings by Cézanne, 1939, III, ill., as La Tranchée.
Published References
Rivière 1923
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 197, listed.
Faure 1936
Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 1.
Rewald and Marschutz 1936
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 4, ill. (with photograph of the subject).
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 42, ill. vol. II, as La Tranchée.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 62.
De Mazia 1974b
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), p. 23n, pl. 43.
De Mazia 1975a
De Mazia, Violette. "The Decorative Aspect in Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 1 (Spring 1975), pl. 44.
Machotka 1996
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 1996
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.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 94, fig. 52.
Société Paul Cézanne 2005
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 2014
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.
Société Paul Cezanne 2019
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, Ireson and Patry 2021
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).
Touzet 2022
Touzet, Jean-Remy. "Dans le cadre des portières. Le paysage vu du train: Attention, signal devant!" In Le voyage en train. Nantes; Gent: Musée d'arts; Editions Snoeck, 2022. Exhibition catalogue, p. 136, fig. 10 p. 140, as La Tranchée de chemin de fer, c. 1867.
La Tranchée, 1867–68 (FWN 48). Photograph of the motif. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photograph of the motif. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1935; © Sabine Rewald

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Record last updated November 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Tranchée, 1867–68 (FWN 48), on gray paper mounted on cardboard." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=102 (accessed on April 19, 2024).