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 1103-TA
Arbres encadrant une vue sur le hameau des Pâtis à Pontoise
c.1881
Alternate titles: Arbres encadrant une vue sur un hameau; Landscape; Paysage; The "Pilon du roi"
Rewald (W80); Venturi revised: c.1876; Venturi (843): 1879–82
Graphite and watercolor on paper
12 3/16 x 19 1/2 in. (31 x 49.5 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 21, as The "Pilon du roi", dated 1879–82, For sale.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 4, as Landscape, 1879-1882, lent by Matthiesen Ltd. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 843, ill. vol. II, as Paysage.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 80. ill.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 45.
Notes
The site was identified by Alain Mothe, hence the new title.
According to Rewald (1983) "This is possibly the earliest work in which the artist uses trees at left and right to 'frame' the panorama and incorporates their joining branches above not unlike a curtain rising over the landscape."
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Record last updated October 4, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Arbres encadrant une vue sur le hameau des Pâtis à Pontoise, c.1881 (FWN 1103-TA)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1057 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
