The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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Troy WIlkinson; © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
FWN 1188
Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin)
1885–90
Alternate titles: Etude d'arbre: le grand pin; Étude pour un Pin; L'Arbre; Le chêne; Studie van een Boom; Study for a Pine Tree; Study of a Tree
Rewald (W285); Venturi (1494): 1885–90
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
12 1/4 x 18 13/16 in. (31.1 x 47.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 29, as L'Arbre (tentative identification).
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, September 6–November 2, 1930, no. 135, as Studie van een Boom, lent by the Earl of Sandwich, Huntingdon.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 29, as Study for a Pine Tree, 1885-1890, lent by Earl of Sandwich. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, March 18–May 1, 1966, no. 230, ill., as Study of a Tree, 1885-90.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 128, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1494, ill, vol. II, as Étude pour un Pin.
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), p. 16, note 16.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 285, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 374, fig. 4, as Etude d'arbre: le grand pin, 1889-1890.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 105, fig. 74.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 236, fig. 163, dated c. 1890.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 384, ill., as Le chêne.
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Record last updated September 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin), 1885–90 (FWN 1188)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1266 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
