The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
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FWN 3003-36a
La Barrière à Chantilly
1888
Alternate titles: Barrier, Chantilly; Die Schranke in Chantilly (La barrière, Chantilly); House and Barrier; La barrière; La barrière, Chantilly; La maison derrière la barrière; The Barrier at Chantilly; The Gate, Chantilly; The House
Rewald (W308); Venturi revised: 1888; Venturi (924): 1888
Graphite, gouache, and watercolor on wove paper, p. XXXVI from the CP I sketchbook
4 5/8 x 7 11/16 in. (11.7 x 19.6 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aquarelles & pastels de Cézanne, H.E. Cross, Degas, Jongkind, Camille Pissarro, K.X. Roussel, Paul Signac, Vuillard, May 3–15, 1909, no. 20, as La barrière.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 56, as La barrière.
Montross Gallery, New York, Cezanne Watercolors, February 10–21, 1920.
Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, Summer Exhibition of Modern French and American Painters, June 12–October 14, 1926, no no.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, May 17–September 27, 1931, no. 15, as The House. Traveled to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, October 17–December 15, 1931; John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, January 1932.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, May 14–September 12, 1934, no. 14, ill., as House and Barrier.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Adele R. Levy Collection: Memorial Exhibition, June 9–July 16, 1961, listed p. 14, ill., as Barrier, Chantilly.
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, Cézanne watercolors, November 10–December 10, 1967, no. 14, ill.
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland, From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century, October 26–December 4, 1977, no. 26, ill., as House and Barrier. Traveled to: J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, January 9–February 19, 1978; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 1–May 14, 1978.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 34, ill., as Die Schranke in Chantilly (La barrière, Chantilly), 1888, lent by Smith College Museum of Art, Northhamptom, MA; Gift of Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc, 1962. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Published References
Klein, Jerome. The Lillie P. Bliss Collection. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1934, no. 14.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 924, ill. vol. II, as La barrière, Chantilly.
Barr, Jr., Alfred H. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 30, no. 87, as House and Barrier.
Pantheon. Cezanne 10 Water Colors. New York: Pantheon, 1947, no. [03], as The Gate, Chantilly, 1888, Collection David Levy, New York.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, ill. on revers of pl. 25.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 308, ill.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 69, fig. 9, as The Barrier at Chantilly, Smith College Museum of Art.
Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000, no. 44.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 335, ill., as La maison derrière la barrière.
Related work
This work is part of a sketchbook:
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Sketchbook Chappuis I (CP I), 1871–92 (3003)
Notation on the back endpaper "LIV x 2" indicating the original number of recto and verso sheets of the sketchbook, which has since been disbanded and dispersed.
The page numbers are written in Roman numerals at the lower right corner of the recto pages.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Barrière à Chantilly, 1888 (FWN 3003-36a), p. XXXVI from the CP I sketchbook." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1289 (accessed on March 28, 2025).
