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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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 1840
La Fontaine
1872–75
Alternate title: La fontaine
Rewald (W50); Venturi revised: c.1872; Venturi (873): 1875–82
Ink, graphite, and watercolor on paper
3 15/16 x 5 1/2 in. (10 x 14 cm)
Private collection, Europe
Provenance
Paul Cézanne fils, Paris
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris;
Private collection, Paris
Private collection, Switzerland;
Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 8, 1994, no. 1, ill.
Private collection, Europe
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 873, ill. vol. II, as La Fontaine.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 50, ill.Cachin and Rishel 1995
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 162, fig. 1 p. 163, as La Fontaine, 1872-1875.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 401, ill., as La fontaine, Collection Madame Gaston Bernheim de Villers.Related
Record last updated March 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Fontaine, 1872–75 (FWN 1840)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1027 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
