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Catalogue entry

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]

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie E. Bignou, Paris
Theodore Rousseau, Jr., New York;
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
1963f New York
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.
1975–76 New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972-1975, October 1, 1975–January 4, 1976, no. 35, ill.
1977 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wash and Gouache, May 12–June 22, 1977, no. 11.
1981b New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints, June 23–August 23, 1981.
1988c New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Watercolors and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, September 6–November 6, 1988.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
2014–15a New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum's Collection, November 18, 2014–March 15, 2015.
2021a New York
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 1963a
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), fig. 4.
Gazette des beaux-arts 1976
"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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 286, ill. and color pl. 27.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 215, ill.
Enstice and Peters 1990
Enstice, Wayne, and Melody Peters. Drawing: Space, Form, Expression. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1990, ill. p. 45.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 68-9, ill.
Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 106, fig. 75.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 47, ill.
Prat 2011
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 2015
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.

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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 May 3, 2024).