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 1055
Paysage au bord de l'eau
1878–80
Alternate titles: Environs de gardanne; Landscape with Hill; Vicinity of Gardanne; Waterfront Landscape
Rewald (W95); Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi (907): 1885–86
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm)
German Private Collection
Provenance
Private collection, New York;
Private collection, Germany
Exhibition History
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November 10–December 10, 1934, no. 52, as Landscape with Hill, let by F.H. Hirschland.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 22.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Watercolors by Paul Cézanne, December 19, 1939–January 8, 1940, no. 2, as Vicinity of Gardanne.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 70, as Environs de gardanne, 1885-86, lent by F.H. Hirschland.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cézanne: Rarely Shown Works, November 10–29, 1952, [W] 5, ill. formerly Thannhauser, Lucerne; lent by a New York private collector.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 8, ill. lent by Private collection, NY.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 67, lent by Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Hirschland.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 19, 1970–March 1, 1971, p. 155. Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 4–June 14, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Frnacisco, California, September 9–October 31, 1971.
Published References
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 9 p. 33.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 907, ill. vol. II, as Environs de gardanne.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 95, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 62, fig. 41.
Parker, Robert McD. "Catalogue of the Stein Collections." In The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avent-Garde, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 397, no. 15, as Waterfront Landscape.
Parker, Robert McD. with the collaboration of Maxime Touillet. "Résidences de Leo Stein' and 'Résidences de Gertrude Stein." In Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso … L'aventure des Stein, edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow and Gary Tinterow. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 153, no. 17 in fig. 65, as Paysage au bord de l'eau.
Notes
Rewald (1983, p.108) argues against the site being Gardanne. "The apparent flatness of the site and the large body of water in the foreground are incompatible with the landscape that extends between Aix-en-Provence and Mont Sainte-Victore."
Record last updated May 17, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Paysage au bord de l'eau, 1878–80 (FWN 1055)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1072 (accessed on February 7, 2025).