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Catalogue entry

FWN 42
Le Bac à Bonnières
1866 summer
Alternate titles: Le bac; Le Bac à Bonnières (Vue de Bonnières); The Bonnières Ferry
Rewald (96): 1866 summer
Oil on canvas
15 x 24 in. (38 x 61 cm)
Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains

Keywords

Provenance
(Émile Zola, Médan?)
(Zola Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 9–13, 1903, hors catalogue?)
(Léon Orosdi, Paris?)
André Schoeller, Paris
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Faure, Aix-les-Bains;
Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains
Exhibition History
1961 Vichy
Galerie Napoléon, Vichy, France, D'Ingres à Renoir: la vie artistique sous le Second Empire, June–August 1961, no. 30, as Le bac, c. 1867-70, lent by Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains.
1988–89a London and traveling
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872, April 22–August 21, 1988, no. 17, ill. Traveled to: Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne: les années de jeunesse 1859-1872, Paris, September 19, 1988–January 1, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 29–April 30, 1989.
1994–95 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869, April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 23, fig.105. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Origins of Impressionism, September 19, 1994–January 8, 1995.
2011–12 Paris
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne et Paris, October 12, 2011–February 26, 2012, no. 29, ill., p. 69, as Le Bac à Bonnières (Vue de Bonnières), lent by Musée Faure.
2013 Ornans
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, France, Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture, June 29–October 14, 2013, no. 20, ill., as Le Bac à Bonnières.
2017 Martigny
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 18, ill. lent by Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains.
Published References
Adhémar 1960
Adhémar, Jean. "Le cabinet de travail de Zola." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), pp. 293 et 294 (no. 134).
Vergnet-Ruiz and Laclotte 1962
Vergnet-Ruiz, Jean, and Michel Laclotte. Petits et grands musées de France. Paris: Éditions cercle d'art, 1962, p. 189.
Walter 1963
Walter, Rodolphe. "Un vrai Cézanne: 'La Vue de Bonnières.'" Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 61, periode 6 (May 1963), figs. 1 and 6 (detail) with photographs of motif (figs. 3 and 5).
Walter 1988
Walter, Rodolphe. "Aux sources de l'impressionnisme: Bennecourt." L'Oeil 393 (April 1988), pp. 32–33, fig. 6.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 53, fig. 40.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 13, ill.
Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 33, fig. 7, with photograph of motif, p. 32, fig. 6, as Le Bac à Bonnières.
Rewald 1996
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 96, ill. vol. 2, as Le Bac à Bonnières.
Lewis 2000
Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 93, fig. 51.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 130, ill.
Machotka 2008
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 35; vol. 2, p. 48, as Le Bac à Bonnières.
Mothe 2011
Mothe, Alain. Ce que voyait Cézanne: Les paysages impressionnistes à la lumière des cartes postales. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011, pp. 84–85, ill., as Le Bac à Bonnières, with old postcard view of motif.
Rubin 2011
Rubin, James. "Armand Guillaumin et Paul Cézanne en Île-de-France." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, ill., as Le Bac à Bonnières (Vue de Bonnières).
Société Paul Cézanne 2011
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 25, ill., as Le Bac à Bonnières, with old postcard view (p. 24) and contemporary view (p. 22).
Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 59, fig. 8b, with color photo of motif, fig. 8a, as Le Bac à Bonnières.
Mitterand 2016
Mitterand, Henri. Paul Cézanne, Émile Zola, Lettres croisées, 1858–1887. Paris: Gallimard, 2016, fig. 12.
Clarke 2017
Clarke, Michael. "Finding Cézanne, His Place in the French Landscape Tradition." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Cezanne 2021
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 10.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 160, fig. 1, as The Bonnières Ferry.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 8.
Le Bac à Bonnières, 1866 summer (FWN 42)
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Le Bac à Bonnières, 1866 summer (FWN 42). Site identified by Pavel Machotka.
Site identified by Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated February 9, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Le Bac à Bonnières, 1866 summer (FWN 42)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=109 (accessed on April 26, 2024).