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 1187
Etude d'arbre (Le grand pin)
1885–90
Alternate titles: Le grand arbre; Le Grand Pin (étude); Le grand pin, étude
Rewald (W286)
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
12 9/16 x 19 1/2 in. (31.9 x 49.5 cm)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA, and Metropolitan Museum, New York (Bequest of Theodore Rousseau) [Joint: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Provenance
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1974) [Joint: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Exhibition History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 22, pl. XX, as Le grand arbre, 1885-87, lent by Theodore Rousseau, Jr, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972-1975, October 1, 1975–January 4, 1976, no. 35, ill.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wash and Gouache, May 12–June 22, 1977, no. 11.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints, June 23–August 23, 1981.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Watercolors and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, September 6–November 6, 1988.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 155, ill. in color, p. 376, as Le grand pin, étude, 1890-1895, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum, shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 127, Harvard Art Museums and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Published References
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), fig. 4.
"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1975." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1286 (March 1976), p. 50, no. 211, ill., as Le grand arbre.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 286, ill. and color pl. 27.
Enstice, Wayne, and Melody Peters. Drawing: Space, Form, Expression. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990, ill. p. 45.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 106, fig. 75.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 618, no. 1474, ill. in color, as Le Grand Pin (étude), 1890-1895.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 237, fig. 164, dated 1890–95.
Related work
Record last updated November 24, 2021. 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 1187)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1267 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
