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 1232
Rochers à Bibémus
1887–90
Alternate titles: L'escarpement; Maisons sur l'escarpement or Rochers à Bibémus or L'escarpement; Rochers de Bibémus; Roches dans la carrière de "Bibémus"; Rocks at Bibémus; The Ledge
Rewald (W306); Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (1046): 1895–1900
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Watermark: Canson Ingres
18 1/16 x 12 1/2 in. (45.9 x 31.8 cm)
Keywords
- LocalesSouthern France:
- Bibémus »
- LandscapeNatural motifs:
Provenance
Exhibition History
Grafton Galleries, London, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition - Re-arrangement, January 4–31, 1913, no. 18, as L'escarpement, lent by Bernheim-Jeune et Cie.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 6–17, 1914.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Französische Klassiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, May 2–30, 1915, no. 75, as L'escarpement (tentative identification).
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne, July 21–August 15, 1956, no. 75, ill. lent by Col. Samuel A. Berger; dated circa 1895.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 98, c. 1895, lent by S. A. Berger, New York.
Fine Arts Associates [Otto Gerson], New York, Cezanne Watercolors, January 30–February 18, 1956, no. 15, ill. lent by Mr. Samuel A. Berger.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 78, ill. lent by Col. Samuel A. Berger.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 72, pl. 42, c. 1895-1900.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 28, ill. in color, pl.18, as Roches dans la carrière de "Bibémus", 1887-1890, lent by Colonel Samuel A. Berger, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, July–September 1966, no. 25, ill. lent by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 25, ill.
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York, Sixteen watercolors by Cezanne on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, October 16–November 16, 1973, no. 7.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings, Watercolors, Sculptures and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman, May 22–September 29, 1974, no. 35, ill. Traveled to: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, December 8, 1974–March 14, 1975; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, April 13–August 31, 1975; Francine and Sterling Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 26, 1975–February 22, 1976; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 6–May 30, 1976.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Prints, September 25–October 16, 1977, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors and Drawings in the Pearlman Collection, February 5–April 17, 1980, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne Watercolors from the Pearlman Collection, April 21–June 24, 1981, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, September 22–November 4, 1984, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, Cézanne in the Collection of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation and the Collection of Mrs. Rose Pearlman, February 1–April 5, 1992, no number listed.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne in focus : watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003, no. 3, ill. verso ill. p. 51.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 95, ill., (dated 1887–90), lent by Pearlman Foundation shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 7, ill., p. 149. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, March 13–June 22, 2014, no. 6, ill. c. 1887-90. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, July 11–October 5, 2014; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 25, 2014–January 11, 2015; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, February 7–May 18, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 12, 2015–January 3, 2016.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Landscapes Behind Cézanne, February 24–May 20, 2018.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 158, Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1046, ill. vol. II, as Rochers de Bibémus.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, pp. 3-4, no. I, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 306, ill.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 123, fig. 43, as Rocks at Bibémus, c. 1887-90.
Simms, Matthew. "Painting on Drawing and Cézanne's Watercolors." In Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, p. 167, fig. 107 (cat. 6).
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 246, fig. 173.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 107, c. 1887-90.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 363, ill., as Maisons sur l'escarpement or Rochers à Bibémus or L'escarpement (installation photograph from 1914 exhibition, p. 96).
Elderfield John, et al. Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 116, fig. 74, as Rocks at Bibémus, dated 1895–1900.
Record last updated March 1, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Rochers à Bibémus, 1887–90 (FWN 1232)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1287 (accessed on May 2, 2025).
