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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
© Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation
FWN 3006-40bisb
Personnages au bord de l'eau
c.1877
Alternate titles: On the Water; Sur l'eau
Rewald (W55); Venturi revised: 1872–74; Venturi (1233): 1872–77
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper, unnumbered page verso from the AIC sketchbook
5 1/8 x 8 11/16 in. (13 x 22 cm)
Provenance
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (October 6, 1919)
Montross Gallery, New York (April 28, 1921)
Fumiko Hayashi, Tokyo
Private collection, Osaka-fu
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Artizon Museum, Tokyo (2020)
Exhibition History
1920a New York
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.1926b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition rétrospective Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) au profit de la caisse du Monument Cézanne, June 1–30, 1926, no. 58[a] (see Dormoy 1926).1951 Kamakura
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, Cézanne and Renoir, November 18–30, 1951, no. 17.1953 Tokyo
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Tokyo, Développement de la peinture moderne (l'Occident et le Japan), 1953, no. 77, ill.1954 Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Watercolor and Drawing, 1954, n.n.1957 Kyoto
Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, Masterpieces of Western Painting, 1957, no. 91.1963 Tokyo
Isetan [Department Store], Tokyo, Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, March 1–17, 1963, no. 12, ill.1984 Madrid
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Paul Cézanne, March 9–April 1984, no. 56, ill. 1872-1877, lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo.1986 Tokyo and traveling
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 44, ill. lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.1999–2000 Yokohama and traveling
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 63, ill., as Personnages au bord de l'eau, lent by Bridgestone Museum of Art. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.Published References
Dormoy 1926a
Dormoy, Marie, translated by Margarete Mauthner. "Die Cézanne - Ausstellung bei Bernheim-Jeune." Kunst und Künstler 24, no. 11 (1926), ill. p. 447.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1233, ill. vol. II, as Sur l'eau.Takamizawa Mokuhansha 1940
Paul Cézanne: 1858–1885, 2 vols. Tokyo: Takamizawa Mokuhansha, 1940, no. 456.Kawakita 1957
Kawakita, Michiaki. Cézanne. Tokyo: Gakken, 1957, p. 9.Bridgestone Gallery 1977
Catalogue. Tokyo: Bridgestone Gallery, 1977, no. 41, ill.Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 55, ill.Bridgestone Museum 1985
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection. Tokyo, 1985, cat. no. 30, ill. p. 127, as On the Water.Dauberville 2020
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 403, ill., as Sur l'eau.Notes
The painting La Cueillette (FWN 638) and a page from this sketchbook Deux femmes dans un paysage (3006-30b) are loosely related to this watercolor.
The sheet was removed from the sketchbook before it was paginated.
Record last updated November 9, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Personnages au bord de l'eau, c.1877 (FWN 3006-40bisb), unnumbered page verso from the AIC sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1032&sketchbook=3006 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
