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 1061
Le Château de Médan
1879–80
Alternate titles: Castillo de Médan; Château de Médan; Das Schloß in Médan; Landscape at Médan; Landschaft mit Zypressen; Schloß von Médan (Château de Médan); Südfranzösische Landschaft; The château of Medan
Rewald (W89); Venturi revised: 1879–82; Venturi (847): 1879–80; Ratcliffe: c.1880
Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on laid paper
Watermark: Desloye "PL BAS"
12 5/16 x 18 9/16 in. (31.3 x 47.2 cm)
Provenance
Paul Cassirer, Berlin (private collection);
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Ein Jahrhundert französischer Zeichnung, December 1929–January 1930, no. 3, ill., as Landschaft mit Zypressen.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Sammlung:1910-1930, May 26–August 11, 1935, no. 224, as Südfranzösische Landschaft, Inv. Nr. 2373.
Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, March–June 1938, no. 15, as Château de Médan, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 44, as Le Château de Médan, 1879-1881, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Wildenstein Galleries, London, Homage to Paul Cézanne, July 1939, no. 49, as The château of Medan, c. 1880, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July 25–September 26, 1943, no. 546, as Le Château de Médan.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Emile Zola: exposition organisée pour le cinquantième anniversaire de sa mort, December 12, 1952–March 1, 1953, no. 277, ill., as Le Château de Médan, c. 1879-1881, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 57, ill. 1879-81, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 71, ill. 1879-81, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 49, c. 1880.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 37, ill., catalogue note: p. 157, as Landscape at Médan, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 20, ill., as Schloß von Médan (Château de Médan), dated 1880, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich, Graphische Sammlung (Inv.-No. 2373). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 31, ill. in color, as Le Château de Médan, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 70, ill. in color, p. 219, as Le Château de Médan, 1879-1881, lent by Kunsthaus, Zurich, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 7, ill., as Le Château de Médan, c. 1880, lent by Kunsthaus, Zürich.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 76, ill., as Le Château de Médan, 1879-80, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, listed p. 231, ill. p. 115, as Das Schloß in Médan, 1878-1880, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Hommage à Cézanne, November 30, 2006–February 11, 2007, no no., as Le Château de Médan, c. 1879/81, Kunsthaus Zürich.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 20, ill.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 162, ill.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Französische Zeichnungen." Der Cicerone 22, no. 1 (January 1930), ill. p. 10, as Landschaft mit Zypressen.
Scheffler, Karl. "Französische Zeichnungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bei Paul Cassirer." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 5 (1930), p. 192.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 847, ill. vol. II, as Château de Médan.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 118.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 32, no.19, ill. (dated 1879-81), Kunsthaus Zürich.
Hugelshofer, Walter. Dessins et aquarelles de maîtres français du XIXe siècle: appartenant a des collections publiques et privées de suisse. Basel: Éditions Holbein, 1947, pl. 2.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 69.
Stoll, Robert Thomas. Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne. Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1960, pl. 36.
Hohl, Reinhold. "Landschaftsaquarelle von Paul Cézanne." Werkzeitung der J.R. Geigy AG 24, no. 6 (November/December 1966), fig. 5, p. 21, ill.
Emile-Zola, François and Massin. Emile-Zola Photographe. Paris: Denoël, 1979, no. 79.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 89, ill.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 96, ill. p. 95, as Castillo de Médan.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 72, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne au fil de l'eau." In Au fil de l'eau. Aix-en-Provence: Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 21, as Le Château de Médan.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 133, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 71, fig. 51.
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 21, ill. dated 1879–81.
Mitterand, Henri. "Une fraternité d'artistes: Cézanne et Zola." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43, fig. 12.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 606, no. 1449, ill. in color, as Le Château de Médan, 1880.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 105, fig. 64, dated 1879–81.
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 14, dated 1879–81.
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand. L’exemple de Cézanne; Cézanne le précurseur. Lugano: Pagine d’Arte, 2016, listed p. [10], ill. p. [19].
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 309 fig. 1.
Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 354, ill.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Mapping Cézanne. Drawings and Watercolors on Paper from Émile Desloye." November 2020, pp. 217–19, figs. 1, 4 (detail), 8.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Château de Médan, 1879–80 (FWN 1061)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1066 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
